Reflection Problem

Stretch65

Hi,

I've created a scene where I have 2 figures - let's call them A and B, and standing in between them I have a vertical plane to which I've applied a fairly reflective glass shader.  Now I want figure A to be reflected in the glass - that's the side I'm rendering from.  But I don't want to see the reflection of figure B in the glass.  If I aim my lights mostly at figure A, then figure B's side becomes fairly dark and their reflection doesn't show much.  But I was rather hoping I could illuminate figure B's side and *still* suppress their reflection.   Is there any way of doing that?  (I've attached an image of the glass shader I'm using)

 

Richard Haseltine

So they are both on the same side of the glass, but on different edges? At first i read your post as describing a pane of glass suspended between them.

In 3Delight you could use the uberSurface shader instead of the existing shaders on B and its hair and clothes, then turn raytrace off for all surfaces. Otherwise it's going to be a question of nudging the angles to control what shows, or doing two renders - one with and one without B - and combinng them.

Stretch65

Sorry, I guess I should have posted some images of a simplified version of the scene (see below).  The first image is what I want - the 2nd image is what I'm getting (the sphere is in front of the glass; the cube is behind).  The 2nd image occurs when I illuminate both sides.   So you reckon my choices are either using Ubersurface or some layered postwork?