Houdini 19 Vray nightly bug log

[chadstevens]

Hi I'm just going to log some bugs I've found for Houdini 19 with the Vray 18695 Nightly build.

1. Clipper - mesh mode not working
2. Material wrapper is not showing background, it just shows black.

[Gosho.Genchev]

Hello chadstevens ,

I've checked on my end with the specified build ( vray_adv_51020_houdini19.0.383_c24a49e_18695 ) - both of those features appear to work as expected.
I've attached my scenes here:

1. Clipper using a mesh -> Link
2. Wrapper for a matte object using environment background -> Link

If possible, could you please check those on your end and ping us if anything is out of the oridnary? It's possible something in your setup is causing those features to misbehave - sending a scene our way would help a lot to figure out the issue.

Best regards!

[chadstevens]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Cheers.

[chadstevens]

Alright, so I think my problem was working at SOP level.

Material wrapper - so it seems my problem was trying to apply a material wrapper to the grid at sop level and use a merge node with a vray material on the cube.
This resulted in a wrapped material, but no shadow.

Vray clipper, I tried using a mesh that was in the same SOP level as the clipper but that doesn't work, I'm still new to Houdini from max, so I'm still trying to figure out the correct way to use the tools.

Thanks very much for the help.

[chadstevens]

So I've played around with it a bit and I'm still getting a black wrapper without a vray environment and with a white dome light.

See attached. --> LINK