Separate ground plane reflections in 3d

is there any way to turn off the ground plane reflection for any one object in a 3d scene? i'm trying to create a mock-up of a bottle where the bottle is semi-transparent (clear plastic) but the label is opaque. i've done this by creating two bottle object, the idea being to leave one bottle (the semi-tansparent one) blank and put the label on the other one's extrusion. it's working out ok, except the semi-transparent bottle is screwing up the reflection so i'd like to turn that reflection off if possible. any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi,
You have to have one of the 3D tools selected for the grid to display. Try pressing 'K' or 'N'. If that doesn't turn it on, then go to View> Extras and click it to give it a check mark (or toggle Hide/Show with Ctrl/Cmd+H).
regards,
steve

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