Sky/Atmospher Layering?

Support Lighting and Rendering
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Is there a way to layer the sky/atmosphere so only select objects on certain layers can receive light from it?
Basically, I need the light generated by the sky/atmosphere to only effect on object and not another.
If this can be done without compositing different scenes, that would be awesome.

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There are lightgroups, but they do not seems to play well with Sun based atmosphere. So you probably will need to use the compositor to separate layers and recombine.

3

Yes, because atmosphere effects are applied per file or layer i don’t think there is a way around using the compositor.

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Sorry, I forgot tp mention that I’m using Cycles.

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Plugging into the camera you can get some other effects. But you could make scene for the objects no shadow. and another for shadows.
Make a scene for BI and could use fog. I did a linking object test a while back. But im shy on the compositor