Vraysun render position not matching viewport position

[tricky]

I am positioning the vray sun in-camera so that it appears just behind a particular bit of geometry. It is not connected to any kind of daylight system. When I render, the position of the sun 'orb' is very different to the viewport position.

Any ideas?

[Dave_Wortley]

How close is your sun node to the rest of your objects in the scene, Remember the Sun Position is supposed to be a few million miles away so you may need to move your sun light object back in distance a bit to get a more accurate viewport representation of where your sun is in the sky.

[vlado]

Dave is right, you'll need to move the sun further away to get a better idea of where it will be in the image.

Best regards,
Vlado

[MoonDoggie]

haha, change your coord mode to local, and select your move tool. Set your transform to relative transformations and in Z, type -92,960,000 miles

[Dave_Wortley]

haha, change your coord mode to local, and select your move tool. Set your transform to relative transformations and in Z, type -92,960,000 miles

That might be a little excessive... a few 100m will normally do ok.

[Neilg]

the sun target has to be aligned to the camera too, yours is off to one side.

[MoonDoggie]

That might be a little excessive... a few 100m will normally do ok.

I disagree. Exact distances only.

[tricky]

Thanks guys. I will do this. I just assumed WYSIWYG as with spotlights/omni/ies etc.