Vray wont render chunks of particles, while Scanline will - this is silly.

[JD3D_CGI]

So I just created a basic cigarette smoke simulation and tried a path follow - that works nice.

I whack in an omni and his render - scanline works OK.

Same thing with Vray (trying different shadow types and lights) and just massive sections of the smoke aren't rendered.

WTF?

max 2015 why wont vray render this.zip

[Raven]

Did you come right?
Rendered perfectly fine on 2016 and vray 3.50.04.

[georgi.zhekov]

It renders fine with 3.50.04. What version of V-Ray are you using?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

This is because if you are using a max light, you need to set it up manually - enable Volumetric Shadows and set the shadow type to VRayShadow. This happens automatically with V-Ray lights, but for Max lights you need to do this, otherwise parts of the scene randomly will not be lit by the light.

Cheers!

[JD3D_CGI]

I am rendering with Max 2015 - and the same issue was happening with VRAY lights as well.

[georgi.zhekov]

Is it working now with the suggestion from Svetlin?

If it's still not working - which version of V-Ray are you using?

[JD3D_CGI]

I am using vray 3.5.03

The thing is, I have just tested it on my laptop at home and it works - yet my work machine gives the error as described. Both are using the same version of vray and phoenix (using hamachi to serve the licence to laptop

But consider this: is is rendering PART of the smoke - so it's not the fact it won't render the smoke at all - you can see that it is neatly cut off into sections at 90 degree angles.

That's not a case of not rendering volume smoke - it's a bug that is happening on one machine but not another.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ah, yes, this is an issue with the new V-Ray adaptive lights - if you turn those off, it should work. However, this is fixed in Phoenix 3.03. Which Phoenix version are you using?

[JD3D_CGI]

I guess the work machine I was using didn't have thelatest PFD - it does now and it works.

Thanks for the help!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Yay Glad we figured it out.