Vray LightDome in Maya is showing up in all Render Layers?

#1

Hi. I have a scene that is broken up into 3 render layers.

Background - Buildings
Middelground - Car and Smoke (fluid)
Forground - Cobblestone road

The geo associated with the above layers are each on there own Vray object property.

I almost have it working. Here are the problems.

#1 I’m using a VrayLightDome to create the cloudy sky. It does emit light but is using the “use dome tex” option to read the hdr image of the sky. This sky shows up in all my render layers no matter what I do to it.

#2 I’m using a 3d fluid container to make the smoke behind the tires and it also shows up on all render layers no matter what I parent it to or which VOP I put it in.

How do I resolve these two problems? Thank you in advance.

#2

http://buzert.cgsociety.org/art/render-pass-troubles-animation-2d-1239477

#3

just wanted to give an update. I’ve searched high and low and still no luck. I don’t know how to do this an now faced with a 40 day render because I can’t render it in layers.