[3ds Max] Art render. How to exclude objects from getting lit by Sun Positioner?

Triptamine

Hi,
Im making an interior scene with an aquarium.

Very simply I put an aquascape texture on a box surrounded by glass plates. I made it a Standard material to access the selfillumination feature and its looks fine.
Only trouble is the box is also recieving light from the Sun Positioner in the scene.

How do I exclude an object from recieving light from the Sun?

Thanks in advance.
Trip

throttlekitty

What software/renderer?

Triptamine

I am using 3ds Max and the ART render. 

Eric Chadwick

Set the Diffuse color to black.

Triptamine

Eric Chadwick said:

Set the Diffuse color to black.

That won't work as I have a texture in the diffuse slot. 
I did manage to achieve an acceptable effect by turning specular level all the way up and zero gloss.



I still wonder if it even is possible to exclude objects from the sun..

Trip

Eric Chadwick

Yes. Each light should have an Include/Exclude list. There's also Object Properties.

Eric Chadwick

Also you could move the texture to the Self Illumination slot and check Color, then set Diffuse to black.

Triptamine

Right, I must have misunderstood you before. Moving the texture to Self Illumination slot and then setting diffuse to black indeed does the job.

Thanks alot for the help.

Trip

PS: Unchecking Recieve Illumination in object properties does nothing. The object is still lit by the sun. Infact I don't think any of the Rendering Controls works with the ART Render.