not getting rid of prepasses

V-Ray for 3ds Max V-Ray for 3ds Max :: General
1

all visible objects have standard materials, reflections are globally disabled, gi is off, no lights in scene, default light off - still vray computes prepasses.

vray takes hidden object reflection-settings into account to set rendering parameters, even though reflections and gi are globally disabled.
very confusing.

;-( andre

2

It appears that even if reflect/refract turned off, interpolated glossies are still calculated to some extent (they go faster than if they were on).

3

and they are calculated even though no object with interpolated glossies are visible.