Vray Mesh Light support

[vishwanath_mani]

Hello,
Do we have an update on when Mesh light support will be implemented in Vantage.
I feel this is an important feature for archviz as lot of bend lights and curved lights need to be in places like Lights and ceiling and objects like round table etc which needs to be lit.
This support of Mesh light would be very helpful.
Thanks.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi vishwanath_mani,

Mesh light support is not coming soon. However as a workaround you could use the VRayLight material or Self-illumination input in the VRayMtl(with GI in the material enabled).

Best regards,
Alexander

[q976431]

Hi vishwanath_mani,

Mesh light support is not coming soon. However as a workaround you could use the VRayLight material or Self-illumination input in the VRayMtl(with GI in the material enabled).

Best regards,
Alexander

Will this method make the sampling accuracy of light the same as that of vraylight?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

It may not be pixel perfect matching to the light mesh but will produce illumination and shadowing.

[vishwanath_mani]

It may not be pixel perfect matching to the light mesh but will produce illumination and shadowing.

To be honest, self illumination is quite useless in most of the cases. In Archviz mesh light is of importance as far as I know and we extensively used it, now we can't in vantage.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi vishwanath_mani,

self illumination is quite useless in most of the cases.

Can you give an example where mesh light and self illumination differ that much?

Best regards,
Alexander