In my scene it is required to position the lights close to the main object like this:
How I can make the light source invisible to the camera?
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In the object properties, you can turn off Ray Visibility of the 'emission object' for the camera:
As of Blender 2.76 the Ray Visibility panel was renamed to Cycles Settings:
As of Blender 2.8x, Ray Visibility panel is now part of the new Visibility Panel:
You can also run this script to toggle the Camera Ray Visibility for selected objects (updated for 2.8x):
import bpy
for obj in bpy.context.selected_objects:
# toggle mesh lights
if obj.type == 'MESH':
for slot in obj.material_slots:
if slot.material:
for node in slot.material.node_tree.nodes:
if node.type == "EMISSION":
obj.cycles_visibility.camera = not obj.cycles_visibility.camera
# toggle light types
if obj.type == 'LIGHT':
obj.cycles_visibility.camera = not obj.cycles_visibility.camera
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3$\begingroup$ Both of the answers produce the same result, but just to add that in the node setup you have much more control over things. $\endgroup$ – Vladimir Oct 18 '14 at 13:10
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4$\begingroup$ @Vladimir Note that disabling visibility in the object settings is slightly more efficient performance wise than a node setup. $\endgroup$ – gandalf3♦ Oct 18 '14 at 18:49
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$\begingroup$ @gandalf3 I didn't know that. But, maybe the node setup can be more useful if the performance is here there the same. Thanks for the tip. $\endgroup$ – Vladimir Oct 19 '14 at 11:32
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1$\begingroup$ Does not work correctly, it still appears in the bake $\endgroup$ – Black Nov 29 '17 at 20:01
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$\begingroup$ Can I also exclude it from compositing layers like depth or normals? $\endgroup$ – janispritzkau Mar 18 at 11:16
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You can setup the emission material in cylcles like this:
Note: @gandalf3 mentioned that disabling visibility is slightly more efficient performance wise than this node setup.
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Well, in Blender 2.79 just turning the camera ray off did not work as I expected. So I did a new trick. It Works fine for me.
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6$\begingroup$ Answers should be more in depth than a simple screenshot. What did you do differently? Why was the accepted answer insufficient? FWIW, the accepted answer still works fine in 2.79, something else must be different in your scene. Is your light behind glass, for example? That would cause rays hitting it to be transmissions rays rather than camera rays. $\endgroup$ – JtheNinja Jun 27 '18 at 5:44
