Vray light

[natty]

is there a reason for when you bring a vray light into the viewport (top)
it comes in the wrong way round ?
this is so annoying.
i just wish it would be the right way round ........


Natty

[Syclone1]

Yes come to think of it I often have the same problem whenever creating a V-Ray light you always have to rotate it 180 to get it to face the way you want it.

-dave

[GoncaloP]

Yes, and if you try to align it with a max light it will point to inverted direction...

Gonçalo

[vlado]

This particular thing is not easy to fix without breaking old files, so for the time being it has to remain that way. Maybe I can change it so that at least during the creation the light is oriented in the standard way for 3dsmax.

Best regards,
Vlado

[natty]

Vlado
that would be great ...
thank you

Natty

[jujubee]

perhaps an invert direction checkbox would do the trick. or an auto-detect script in newer releases that would detect vray light planar normals in relation to past vray version numbers - thereby rotating them automatically 180 degrees. I'm not much of a programmer unfortunately so I take your word that it causes issues down the line. Would love to help you out if I had half the brain...

[DaForce]

Also when using the place highlight tool , the vray light flips and faces away from the object. No matter wether you turn it the right way before you use Place Highlight or not

[trixian]

Why not just let it be targeted. Max's free lights can at any time be converted to target lights, and they get their target gizmo placed at a default distance in an perpendicular angle. Would this be impossible for vray lights?