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luminous exclusion
How is it possible to keep the luminosity from a shader off of another object. I have a ship using luminosity within and engine part and GI is generating on a nearby object that I don’t want to. This has perplexed me for some time. Its no problem to keep a light source from affecting an object; but this luminosity thing has me stumped.
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add a Compositing tag to the object you want to exclude from the GI, go to the GI tab there, Enable GI Parameters (check it) and set Intensity Ratio to 0%
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Hi Brian,
A quick question…I have a compositing tag set already and if I set the ratio to 0% then the object receives no GI at all. I want GI just not the remnants of light from my luminous material nearby. Is there a way to to achieve this without the pain of setting alternative lighting for the object?
Thanks for your help man!
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No, there’s no way to exclude one object’s GI contribution from another object directly. I can think of a couple things you might try, but neither may work depending on your scene:
1. Put a light inside of your luminous object and restrict it to the object you want to exclude. Give it the same color as your luminous object and then set a negative intensity to try to cancel the light coming from the object;
2. Place a plane or disk between the two objects and give it a compositing tag. Uncheck “seen by camera” in the tag properties.
Ultimately, though, I think you’ll probably have to render twice and composite in the object that you don’t want affected by the other object’s luminosity.
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Thanks Adam,
I’ve used the plane method before and seems to work fairly well. Would be nice if the boys at Maxon could implement something to this effect in the future.
Thank you for your expertise, you have always been a help to my work!
Turned out fairly well. But the JPEG doesn’t do much justice on the web!
J
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another possibility might be to bake the texture of the object to be excluded (with the luminance generator you want to exclude turned off/hidden/luminanace turned off in the material) so it picks up the GI from everything else – then turn the luminant object back on, add the Compositing tag, set GI ratio to 0 again
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SNAP! Never thought of that…
Brilliant! Thanks Brian.
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That looks great. Good job.
And excellent suggestion by Brian, below.
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