Vray 2.0 HDRi + Shadow plane issue...

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Heya

I got a little problem...

I have 360 HDRI in my Dome light - all set to on except for visible and full spherical HDRI. -

Then I have teapot with chrome material.

Then I have a plane on floor

I added MTLWrapper

Disable Recieve GI
Tick on
Matte surface
Shadows
Affect Alpha
ALpha Contribution -1.0

I put grey VrayMTL in to base material

Here start problem I render image and I can see black plane around teapot.

The reflections pick the grey plane and shadows that teapot cast.

How can I get rid of it ? All I want to see is shadows in reflection + HDRI and have Shadows on alpha. - I also want to disable the HDRI image so I cant see it in render (tick off visible for light)...

Thanks, bye.

[vlado]

The trick is to override the GI environment color and set it to black in the V-Ray Environment section.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Heya

Nop didnt work. I still can see the grey plane.

But I got a hot fix for it... What I did was instead of using VrayMTL I put there VrayLight with Instance of my HDRI from light. Thanks to that I got only around 3-7% difference in reflection - bare-ally noticeable. (a option with VrayMTL with diffuse set to HDRI also work but difference is a lot bigger...)

Still it would be nice if this would be finally fixed... I've been searching web and threads go as far as 2006 back with this issue...

[vlado]

Works fine for me... Can you post a scene here or email it to me at vlado@chaosgroup.com?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Sure will do give me few mins will email you one. U would need ur own HDRI tho... so just chock in anything.