Rendering reflections only

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# 1 22-11-2005 , 12:01 PM

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Is there any way that you can render just the reflection's on an object, like you can do with shadows in the render layers control pass??

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# 2 22-11-2005 , 12:08 PM

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assign a 100% reflective shader onto the objects and then render it separately and composite it in 2d afterwards. You can mix in the reflections to your beauty render.

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# 3 22-11-2005 , 01:53 PM

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Thought that was going to be the way, I just wondered if there was a script that only picked out the reflections and rendered then lhe way a shadow pass does.

Cheers for confirming it

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