Hi all How can I get a glossy specular on a material, without getting any reflection? As in I want highlight glossies, but no reflection So for example if I set the colour swatch to pure white, highlight glossies on 0.7 and leave reflection glossy on 1 The reflection glossy is the problem. no mat…

Turn off “trace reflections” from the material options. That way you will get specular only.

Out of curiosity, why do you want that?

One example could be to add an additional spec layer on a material.

Another example, when having a lot of glossy objects, and inspecting the reflection vs specular passes we can win some rendertime cutting off those reflection which are almost invisible, when the hole effect lays on specular mostly.

[image] Old Vicarage - Video and Stills Another example, when having a lot of glossy objects, and inspecting the reflection vs specular passes we can win some rendertime cutting off those reflection which are almost invisible, when the hole effect lays on specular mostly. Makes sense! Does th…

‘extra time’ is a lot less if you use mini maxscripts to do it for you, You can easily turn off reflections based on some settings like if the glossy is less than x, fresnel on and reflection value or map overall look is darker than gray, or any of the material properties you decide makes sense to c…

[image] "Building" the ultimate vray computer ‘extra time’ is a lot less if you use mini maxscripts to do it for you, You can easily turn off reflections based on some settings like if the glossy is less than x, fresnel on and reflection value or map overall look is darker than gray, or any of th…

You guys should look up the GGX shader for vray. http://www.shlyaev.com/rnd/37-cpp-category/54-ggx

[image] Old Vicarage - Video and Stills Makes sense! Does that extra time make a massive difference in animation? Print wise, I’ve just dealt with the render times :confused: Very much so. I’ve got semi transparent (animated) curtains hit by sunlight i’m rendering right now… trace reflections…

[image] Parallel Light You guys should look up the GGX shader for vray. http://www.shlyaev.com/rnd/37-cpp-category/54-ggx http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?74263-VRayOSLTex&p=605747#post605747

Specular without Reflection? How?

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grantwarwick December 13, 2013, 12:17pm 6

Makes sense!
Does that extra time make a massive difference in animation? Print wise, I’ve just dealt with the render times

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Specular without Reflection? How?

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