How to work with LightSelect Render Elements ?

- simple scene with a teapot
- two different lights (one orange, one blue)

Teapot has
- Reflection
- Refraction

I render the VrayLightSelect Passes. I can then change the color of each light.
However, the color is of course not changing in the reflection pass or the refraction pass.

How do you handle that ?

Thx for any little hints, tips, tricks and ideas !

You're increasing dimensionality at that point. You either need to render per light, per pass, or per light*pass. Obviously, this increases the number of passes, so you have to decide if you really want to do that.

hmm.. ok.. makes sense.. but how would you break it up ?

for instance.. let's say you would like to separate the reflection... so that you can also change the reflection pass for each light... uaahh.. I mean.. is this actually possible ?

That's what I would be curious !

It is, but it increases the number of passes. So if you had 12 passes before, and you have 35 lights, you will need to render 420 passes. Your comp will also become larger and slower.

If total control is unfeasible (as chad has demonstrated) you could also render beauty passes for each light (turning off the others if VRay doesn't support this). You can subtract that pass from the main beauty and add a graded version back. If you use a reflection filter pass you can restrict that effect to only your reflective surfaces.