Invisible ground in reflection

[nicobo]

Hi, is there a way to acheve a render where the ground receive shadows and reflexions, but not visible in reflections ?

[raba]

I do not understand.. please try to describe more detailed. Where is your problem?

[nicobo]

In others words, i don't want to see the ground in the cylinder.

[raba]

maybe it's not the ground.. but more the horizon what we see there?

[raba]

which materials do you use for the cylinder and the ground?

[iva_mancheva]

Hello nicobo,

You can try making the ground material perfectly reflective (with white Reflection color and 1 Reflection Glossiness), then you should not be able to see the ground in the cylinder reflections so clearly.

Kind regards,
Iva

[Micha]

I would add this to the ground material and disable "visible in reflections". I hope it works.

[Micha]

An other interesting option is to fade out the reflections for the object metal material.

[nicobo]

Thanks a lot Micha, works perfectly and solve another issue with the Dim Distance i had.