VrMesh /Vray Proxy - Shadows not rendering?

[DaftPunk]

Ok, so I just got into vrmeshes ( 1 gig isnt enough to render a whole forest, or even a PARK of trees) and decided to use an easy-nat tree as my first experement.

Got it turned to a mesh, exported it as a proxy, brought it back in, instanced(not copied) it all ove the place... and.. 1/4 MAYBE 13 of the trees casted shadows, infact, some trees only casted PARTIAL shadows, and from the top view it looked like it was cropping all the shadows out as a square formation, kinda strange.

I couldnt find anything in the search on this, then again Im bad with wording in searches.

Any clues as to what I did to upset vray?

[flipside]

What's an easy nat tree?

I did the same thing as you, without any problems.

[RErender]

Is your brightspot/fallof of the sunlight big enough to cover the whole scene?

Did you change the secondary rays bias?

An image might help.

[DaftPunk]

Photometric Sun - Vray shadow, .0 bias, smoothed shadows, no area shadow.

Plane = Vray plane... I took the vray plane out today on another one that did the same thing, and everything rendered ok...

So apparently theres something wrong with the vray plane and a photometric sun?

[Da_elf]

can we see an image of the problem?

[DaftPunk]

Aiee, Ill have to go sign up on an image host to do that, maybe tonight.

But yeah, it -seems- to be linked to the v-ray plane.
When I use a normal plane all the shadows render, when I use a vray plane, it cuts out the shadows.

[DaftPunk]

EasyNat - Made by the people who made NatFX- is a free plugin that comes with Max7 on the 2nd CD.
It generates trees, in either Flat/Crossing planar trees, Hybrid 3d+planar trees, and full 3d trees.

Whats cool is it actualy renders the image of the tree you have, because theyre all random.

What I do is just use the 3d model, convert it to a mesh, the a vrmes, and instance it using vrproxy.