How do I enable the reflections of something, but DISable the object itself?

[Sid Edwards]

I’m experimenting with photorealistic qualities in renders. One way I’m investigating of making something photorealistic is by placing relevant miscellaneous objects around the scene to add to the lighting.

But there’s a problem: I don’t actually want these objects to show up in my final render, I just want them to effect the backdrop and target subjects mostly.

So how do I tell blender to make the reflections affect the backdrop, yet be invisible in the final render?

[Martin Bergwerf]

You could simply disable the Camera Ray Visibility:

(Maybe also the Shadow, if that gets in the way.)

Mind you, that doesn’t sound very photo realistic to me😉

[Sid Edwards]

Thank you for the tip! I’ll play around with that.

[Author]

Posts