Hi all,
I’ve just noticed that the sun lamp appears in reflections. Is there a way to have it appear in the render, too, without creating a proxy? 2.77
You can see below that the sun would be visible in the sky as well as the reflection.
Really? No-one. let me put this too you. If you are using a proxy sun for visible render, and a sun lamp in the same scene at about the same location, then your reflections are going to be way off the mark unless you manage to make the proxy pixel perfect at each resolution.
Surely there’s a way to get this right?
If you make proxy geo you don’t need to get it pixel right… you just need to make it not show up in reflections (cycles ray visibilty -> disable everything apart from camera)
also if you are using a proxy sun as a mesh with an emission texture, make sure the emission texture has MIS disabled or else it will cause extra noise.