Problem with lights

[mikasuzuki]

Hi, I am testing VRay and have the demo version 1.47.04 on max 7 sp1,
I have a scene with many IES lights.
The lights are close to wall in order to get the nicely lit brighter areas to walls.

The problem I have is that the brighter areas are just cut in the top or middle causing some part that should be lit to be completely dark. Every time I render again the place where the cutting happens changes in a totally random fashion.

How to fix this or is it a bug?

[mikasuzuki]

Can't believe this. Changing shadow map type from raytrace to vrayshadows fixed the problem.

[percydaman]

vray doesn't support raytrace shadows.

[cpnichols]

maybe you should rephrase.... Vray does not support the MAX raytrace shadows. It uses its own raytraced shadows which are Vray shadows.

[percydaman]

maybe you should rephrase.... Vray does not support the MAX raytrace shadows. It uses its own raytraced shadows which are Vray shadows.

oy, i figured that comment might get me into trouble...but i was too lazy to fix it...

[losbellos]

if I am remember well, advanced raytraced should work too.

[Da_elf]

but whats the point since vray shadow works just as well if not better. something is fishy here though. as far as i know there is no 1.47.04 build

[arquiteck09]

yes it is, try download the vray advanced demo and you get 1.47.04, also in the in the download page it says 1.47.04