The maya improved light select element!

[joconnell]

Heya Vlado,

If it's not in there already, would it be possible to sneak in the expanded light select element? I've a few shots coming up with lights turning on and off in a shot and having the option of the raw, ref and spec contribution of individual lights would make this much easier!

There's a few new features between each platform, of vray and no doubt you're unifying them all - can we expect things like the vray self illumination in the 2.4 release?

Thanks again for all the hard work, I hope you're getting the sales you deserve for all the effort you've put in.

John

[vlado]

Working on the light select so hopefully it will be in a nightly build soon.

The self-illumination slot for the VRayMtl material is in V-Ray 2.4, yes.

Best regards,
Vlado

[joconnell]

That'll stop me being jealous of the neighbours

Would it be possible to get access to the nightlies? Is there normally a big list of builds and a changelog for each so we can gauge whether the added feature is worth the risk of using a less tested build? We're generally using pretty boring features of Vray for the most part so I'd imagine they're the type of things that are affected less by specific upgrades, but the light select changes and any other improvement in skin are going to come in very, very handy for a rather ambitious shot I'm going to start working on in January. Should be some nice shots for the 2013 vray film reel produced by a smaller studio!

[vlado]

You can email us at vray@chaosgroup.com for access to the nightly builds. There are release notes that you can look at before installing or downloading a build.

Best regards,
Vlado

[joconnell]

Perfect, much appreciated Vlado.