Faking Reflection

[Derya]

Is it possible to exclude objects from Reflection?
If not, is it possible to have an environmental reflection on the Shader Level
instead on the scene level?

I have an empty white room, which inhabits a highly reflective object and in
order to get some interesting reflections I want to mix in an hdr environment
into the reflection, but the room is blocking the octane sky object with my hdr texture.
Any ideas for a workaround?

[Kerem]

Put a sphere in between the object and the room. Hdr dome is basically a sphere. make sphere invisible with an object tag.

I'd use the hdr as an image based in the emmission tag both for the texture and distrubution..

[Derya]

Thanks for your suggestion Kerem, I am not sure if I understood the second part of your answer.
Could you provide a screenshot or a file for clarification. Thanks.

[Derya]

Ok, figured it out myself. Thanks very much again Kerem.

[Kerem]

no pro. did it work thoug?

[Derya]

It did, thanks again. It would be nice if we could have more options in the Object Tag for including and excluding objects from AO, Reflection etc.