Light Linking

[stezza]

Is Light Linking supported in Vray for Maya? I have a ambient light linked to a sky dome (and nothing else) but when rendering it alluminates everything.

[vlado]

Light linking should work - at least it does on a simple scene here. For you case you can also use a surface shader or a VRayLightMtl material for the dome.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Yannick]

I noticed that in some case, the light linking only work if I select the light and the geometry then do lighting/shading -> break light links or make light links.
However when using the light linking editor, it doesn't work all the time.

[jensl]

I've mostly switched to light linking by shading group over geometry, as it seems quite a bit simpler and lighter in terms of the number of connections, etc. Maybe give that a try.

[stezza]

Jensi, could you explain a little more on how you do this process?

[jensl]

Yeah, if you use light-centric light linking, you can select your light in the left panel, and then left click on any shading groups in the right panel you don't want to be affected.