Heya.

In a nutshell, I need to be able to produce city lights on a dark side of a planet, simular to this:
http://planetpixelemporium.com/tutorialpages/earthlight.html
However there are a number...

Regarding the passes, I got round this by rendering them using Maya Software, and seperate 'Directional lights'.

Much quicker and simpler.

So far so good, but I'm getting quite large soft areas around the edges of my cubes. Whats going on?

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/6506/helpsf8.jpg

I was using a sphere that emits photons, but now I've switched to the in-built IBL functionality, and I'm getting much better results.

Theres still something I need to figure out though, and thats...

Any idea anybody, or is this just not possible?

To clarify, my scene is like this:

IBL Sphere
Mirror
Charecter

And reflections

I have already done this so the object is not rendered unless its in a reflection.

Disabling the reflection option would also disable this for ALL objects though, and I only want to do this for my...

I cant do that. The object I want to hide from the reflection is an IBL sphere.

It is being used to light everything else, and reflections are displayed through them. I want to disable it for...

I have a sphere that I'd like to be visible in reflections of certain objects, but not others.

How can I configure this?

Hey, sorry for assuming the wrong thing. My bad :headbang:

I've fixed this in the end, by simply making a new shader. Source images are just the ones I used matched up all in one file, and I...

I'm afraid I cant do that. I've spent a considerable amount of time and money towards this major factor in my project, which is now marked for assessment.

I'll find a solution elsewhere.