Skydome alpha...

[evanerichards]

I'd like to request that a skydome does not contribute to the alpha. I have thought about it for a long time, and I can't think of a single reason you would want to have your skydome contributing to the alpha. At very least it would be nice to have a little switch the toggle the alpha on and off. The standard method I would use with any other material would be to add a vray wrapper material and turn off the alpha contribution, but that doesn't work with a skydome.

If that little feature could be added it would be hugely valuable to me and all the people I work with. Would save a lot of time of making render layers to separate elements.

Thanks!!

[vlado]

You could simply make the dome light invisible to the camera and use an environment map if you need.

Best regards,
Vlado

[evanerichards]

Its true, that's a workaround. But why do a work around every time for a problem that doesn't need to be there. That means I have to tweak two sets of settings instead of one.
IMHO it seems like lights really shouldn't have alphas or at very least should have toggle-able alphas.