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Ah that makes sense. I'll look forward to the light groups then :)
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Brecht</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>This is the intended behavior, Blender Internal also works the same</div><div>way with lamps, or e.g. an emitting object in a raytraced reflection.</div><div>A light source is no different than another object, it will not be</div><div>directly visible but still indirectly affect other objects. The</div><div>purpose of render layers is that if you composite them all together,</div><div>they will still give the same results as if they were rendered in one</div><div>layer.</div><div><br></div><div>Probably what you're missing most here is light groups support, that</div><div>should be added at some point.</div><div><br></div><div>Brecht.</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Jonathan Williamson</div><div><<a href="mailto:jonathan@cgcookie.com">jonathan@cgcookie.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I've recently encountered something with Render Layers that is a bit</div><div>cumbersome, and potentially a bug but I wasn't sure. I wanted to check here</div><div>before reporting the bug. I talked with a few developers on #blendercoders</div><div>about it and they weren't sure.</div><div><br></div><div>I know that camera layers act like disabling Camera visibility for objects,</div><div>and that those objects are still indirectly visible; but is this also true</div><div>for light sources (including mesh lights)?</div><div><br></div><div>Currently it does not seem to be possible to restrict a mesh light source</div><div>from illuminating an object without disabling the scene layer. However, when</div><div>trying to setup multiple layers, with different lights, it's not currently</div><div>possible to render each of these individually without manually adjusting the</div><div>scene layers for each render or else by using scenes. Neither of these</div><div>methods are optimal though.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this a bug or merely a limitation of path tracing?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Jonathan Williamson</div><div>Education Manager and Instructor</div><div>CG Cookie, Inc</div><div><a href="http://cgcookie.com">http://cgcookie.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Bf-cycles mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org">Bf-cycles@blender.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles</a></div></div></blockquote><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Bf-cycles mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org">Bf-cycles@blender.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles</a></div></div></div></span>
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