Hi everyone,
is there a way to exclude certain groups of an object from casting shadows? Also, I want to know whether I can exclude a specific light from getting reflected on the object.

I have a specific case, my character's eyeball gets shadows from its outer sphere (which is used for highlights), so the eyeball gets very dark. The character is a whole object (alembic) consisting of primitive groups. Now I want to exclude outer sphere not to cast shadow on the eyeball. Also my area light is reflected on the outer sphere, I would also like to exclude the light from reflection.

Thx.

hi emil. re. the first part of your question, you can disable shadow casting on the shader level. the materials mostly have a fake caustic parameter that allows you to do this off-the-shelf for materials with refractions, but you can also manually do this via the ‘is shadow ray’ vop. here's an example:

Thank you very much, Brian Burke.