unknown property: newLight.override_shape=true

[super gnu]

heya, i have a scene here with a pile of ies lights in. other than that its already a vray scene.

i thought id run the "new improved" scene converter in 2.30, with its ability to convert ies to vray-ies.


i got the error mentioned in the title and the conversion fails.

this is with max 2012 sp2 x64.

[vlado]

Well there's a reason the build is not officially announced yet Will fix the installation, but in the meantime replace the "vrayutils.ms" file in "c:\program files\3ds Max 2012\scripts\startup" with the attached one.

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

ahh haha.. here i am picking holes and its not officially cooked yet.. sorry i assumed since it was in the dl's section it was "released"

[super gnu]

hm.. well since ive started poking i may as well carry on.. i ran the updated script and it worked, but my lights are much much brighter after the conversion....

[vlado]

For some web profiles, V-Ray and 3ds Max seem to calculate the resulting power differently; unfortunately we haven't been able to track the logic behind it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

Eh well, scratch that... the script was setting the power first and then loaded the web profile which overwrote the original power. Thanks for the pointer.

Best regards,
Vlado