Vraylights and directionality control

[Lupaz]

I was thinking that it could be great to have a numerical value in the vray area light to control how wide or concentrated the rays are.
"Ignore light normals" doesn't give the control one might need.
With a specific value, one could simulate either a spotlight or an area light.

Thanks!

[Morbid Angel]

i would also vote for distance parameter, not the cutoff threshold but rather a fade range, would be so helpful.

[voltron7]

mmmhmm yes, these both sound good IMO

[sea2stars]

Yes, have some.

It would be beneficial being able to store a Vray "spotlight" with the irradiance map.

[vlado]

I was thinking that it could be great to have a numerical value in the vray area light to control how wide or concentrated the rays are.
"Ignore light normals" doesn't give the control one might need.
With a specific value, one could simulate either a spotlight or an area light.

Thanks!

This is already done for rectangle lights in V-Ray 2.0.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Hey

Thats great Vlado. So does it mean that all Vray lights will have that same parameters as Standard spot/omni etc etc have? Long/short range, fallof/hotspot and so on? That would be great! Also I sure hope it would be fully working with high quality viewport to simulate as much as we can from viewport without going to renders

[vlado]

Nope, no viewport preview for any of that stuff yet. The types of viewport lights are hard-coded in the 3ds Max code. One can do a lot for shaders with all the MetaSL stuff, but not for lights.

There is just one additional parameter - directionality. There are no ranges or hotspots etc - it would still be best to use a standard light if you need these.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Lupaz]

The Directional parameter in the vray lights is great! thanks!