Lens Effects Not Respecting Object ID

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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Hey there. So I’m playing the the vray lens effects dialog, I have a sphere with stars on them that I have set the object ID to 0, I turn on glare and set the results to only glow object ID 2, but when I render it still glows the sphere with the stars. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

- Neil

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Hey,

It glows because you have Intensity mask enabled. The rule here is “apply glare on pixels with intensity above 0.10 OR pixels from Object ID=2” - there are objects with ID=0 but intensity above 0.10 so they have glare too.

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Oh I see. So what I want is to “apply glare on pixels with intensity above 0.10 THAT ALSO HAVE pixels from Object ID=2”. It’s doing OR and I want AND. Is there any way to do that?

- Neil

4

Hello,
Pretty interested as well by the “AND” behavior Neil asks …
The UI isn’t very clear on that point … at first, I guess most of users would consider it as an AND ! so did I for example, I found it to be the most logical, but apparently it’s not ;). Could you please guys do something about it ?

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I agree that it will be more useful as an “and” function. I will make a note.

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Awesome, thanks Peter!

- Neil

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Thanks a lot, Peter !

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Trying to come up with a workaround for my issue. Is there a way to have the Glare ignore the background in your scene, if the background is setup as an environment map in the env dialog?

- Neil