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Invisible object casting reflections

HeraHera Posts: 1,957
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hi!

If I remember correct there is a way to have an object not visible in a render but still casting reflections in for instance a mirror. (Like an apparition or a ghost) Can I make this happen and if so how?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,941
    edited December 1969

    using uberSurface, set Phantom to On and leave RayTracing set to On - Phantom hides the surface from the camera, RayTracing leaves it visible in reflections.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Fathom not Phantom mind you Phantom might have been a better name. :)

  • HeraHera Posts: 1,957
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    using uberSurface, set Phantom to On and leave RayTracing set to On - Phantom hides the surface from the camera, RayTracing leaves it visible in reflections.

    Great! Just what I needed! Thanks guys!

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  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    Fathom not Phantom mind you Phantom might have been a better name. :)

    Hi Szark,

    Fantom not Fathom :-P

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    ROFLOL I sit corrected, sorry Richard mt bad but you still spelt it wrong. :P Thanks Prixat for correcting me

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,941
    edited December 1969

    I spelt it right, I just remembered it wrong.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    LOL true I will go and hide under a rock now.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited December 1969

    Actually Pete, it's just another one of those "across the pond" spelling things that you and I discussed awhile ago...that's our story and we're sticking to it.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    LOL well you guys still get it wrong. But you know it is bloody creeping in over here. The advertising folks don't use Twice but two times and I hate it with all my being. And there are plenty more Americanism creeping in all the time.

  • RenpatsuRenpatsu Posts: 828
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    LOL well you guys still get it wrong. But you know it is bloody creeping in over here. The advertising folks don't use Twice but two times and I hate it with all my being. And there are plenty more Americanism creeping in all the time.

    *laughs* I used the word 'thrice' in a conversation not so long ago and due to that made someone look it up in the Oxford dictionary :) Ok, the word is a bit dated, but so am I :)

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