light animation with vray

[gilicom]

Hi all i'm about to start a new project which will show some kind of a dance club.
our customer wants the lights to bounce around and change their colors , lights goes on and off and so on and on.
we are using vray 1.09.03n
will i need to render the whole animation single frame?
did somone tried anything like that?
did you have any problems with animating lights?
thanks

[Syclone1]

the best way for a scene like that would be to render a new IR map with every frame.

-dave

[Da_elf]

will the lights actually move or just ones turning on and off flashing?

[gilicom]

the light will not move , they will just turn on and off
mabe change colors...

[Gijs]

If they don't move, you could render each light as a separate pass and composite later on. It depends a bit on how many passes that will require if it pays off of course. If your GI passes take the most time, it will be worth considering.

[Da_elf]

yeah. i would just render it in passes with different lights on or off then you can just flip between each pass

[gilicom]

thank you for your replays
i'll try calculating a irr map for every frame and if that dosn't work i'll do the passes.
did anyone got any problems using volume lights with vray?

[natty]

It does work ... but not with vray shadows on .. for some reason ..