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A script to help speed up the process of making a simple Matte Pass in vray. It has a button effect similar to the Isolate command, but instead of hiding all other objects, it sets their Vray user properties to Matte Alpha -1.
the matte objects don't receive shadows... this checkbox should also be checked by script!
but the idea is cool, had this one too, when I woke up yesterday and now, such a script exists! I should dream about more useful scripts ^^
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is there a way to make this
is there a way to make this work with xref scenes/objects?
true.. hadn't thought of
true.. hadn't thought of that part, i'm usually just using it to fill the 'holy crap i need an alpha channel' problem quickly ;)
the matte objects don't
the matte objects don't receive shadows... this checkbox should also be checked by script!
but the idea is cool, had this one too, when I woke up yesterday and now, such a script exists! I should dream about more useful scripts ^^
try(setUserProp obj "VRay_Matte_Shadows" true)catch()
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