The new self illumination option is great but it doesn’t allow reflection or refraction? We create a lot of “fake” light boxes in our scenes and we usually use a light material blended with another material that has some reflection. It would be handy to be able to reflect a self illumination materia…

Works fine with reflections and refractions for me; it’s just adds the given color to the shader’s final result - nothing more, nothing less. It does not interfere with reflections or refractions at all. Best regards, Vlado

Ah sorry my bad, I had the self illumination to fully white. Works great, thanks! :slight_smile:

could it be used as a replacement to the VRayOverrideMtls “GI material” option?

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vlado April 5, 2013, 3:19pm 5

I’m not sure how that would work; they do completely different things…

Best regards,
Vlado

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