Disappearing shadows on matte in latest beta

[Metin_7]

Hi guys,

Try this:

1: Create a scene with a few objects on a standard Max plane.
2: VRayMaterials on everything, near white VRayMaterial on the plane.
3: Set plane to matte in object properties, switching on shadows and affect alpha, setting alpha to -1.0.
4: Put dynamic HDRI bitmap in environment override (both lighting and reflection). I used one of the HDRI-Studio lighting setup bitmaps.
5: Set background to white.
6: Render with latest beta, settings: GI 1 = irradiance, GI 2 = light cache, fairly high quality settings for both.
7: Shadows are apparent in prepass, but disappear in final render.

Cheers,

Metin

[RErender]

Hmm sounds a lot like this http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...ic.php?t=11781 but without the Dome light.

[Metin_7]

Hiya,

I think I've trapped the problem: try the same scene approach, but switch to Delone Triangulation! Other methods turn out to work fine indeed, but Delone seems to eat matte shadows.

Cheers,

Metin