Break reflection connections between objects?

[jasona]

I'm trying to stop the reflections from two different object occuring but I'm in a bit of a rock and a hard place, because the two items themselves need to be reflective. I just want them to stop reflecting each other. in 3ds max, you can specify what objects are reflected in a raytrace material. Is there a way I can duplicate that effect in Maya? ie break the relfection connections between two objects?

[joojaa]

You can switch each objects visible in reflections off yes (found under redner stats of the object).

[jasona]

I should have mentioned this in my original post, but I'm actually trying to avoid doing that. Because I need that object to be reflective with everything else in the scene. If I turn it off, then it dissappears from everything (globallly) which i don't want.

Is htere no way to break the reflection connection between just two objects (both of which are generally reflective)?

[joojaa]

Not in the native maya renderer (and not in mentalray for maya euther... but in standalone yes).... Do a 2 pass render! Maya doesnt contain raytrace sets atleast i havent found that functionalty ever.

[jasona]

damn thats too bad. I'll have to read up on multipass rendering to see if I can get the right effect that way. Thanks for resonding jooja

[sagun-manandhar]

are u sure about that jooja ?? it can be also done in renderman for maya.