Distributed Lightmaps and animation simplifications

[baumgore]

Please inplement distributed Lightmaps.
Or what about some intelligent code for pre-rendering the light for animations. So i do not have to first render the lightmap, changing settings, prerender the Irr Map, changing settings, hope everything went OK and render the whole stuff.
I do not mean just a simple script putting all together (althought with dist. Lightmaps it would help), perhaps you could optimize the collaboration of the two maps inside the system, so some sort of automatism is rendering the light for an animation sparing the user a lot of time and distributing the needed calculations over the network.

[TishoChaos]

Distributed Lightmap will come after the release of Vray 1.5
Otherwise, your wishes about the calculation of the light are unrealistic for the moment, because of the way the Irmap and Lightmap work at the moment.