Turn off light visibility in reflection refracrions.

[veent_veent]

Here is an example, I have additional light, but as you see it visible in TV screen. Wish I can turn it off in reflections (may be in material)... Thanks.

[Ana Lyubenova]

Hello veent_veent ,

Nice to hear from you and thanks for pointing at this topic. Extending the lights workflow has been in our list for a while now.

We basically have a couple of options to approach that. One is to use Revit families (dedicated V-Ray lighting fixtures + V-Ray family parameters which can be added to any lighting fixture family). The other is to include replacements similar to those of geometries and materials.
Which one would you vote for and why?

Best,
Ana

[veent_veent]

I think, as you wrote, better way to "dedicated V-Ray lighting fixtures + V-Ray family parameters which can be added to any lighting fixture family" because I don't like any replacement. On my opinion it better have options to add V-Ray parameters to Revit lights and materials to expand their capabilities with all vantages of V-Ray. Thanks for you wide participation.

[Ana Lyubenova]

Don't you find it annoying that you'd have to manually add V-Ray parameters to families?

[veent_veent]

Not about families, bur materials and lights. For example we need in Revit materials properties like fill colors foreground, background, patterns in foreground and background etc. for plans, facades internal and external and other drawing parerwork. But for visualisation we also need V-Ray parametrs in addition to Revit materials. See picture, I think it could be like this (after instaling V-Ray here is could be v-ray parameters only for renderings)

[Ana Lyubenova]

I agree that it would have been the best place for positioning our parameters. However, Revit doesn't let us place anything in its Material Browser.

[veent_veent]

Pity.... autodesk sometimes short-sighted.