Fog in Maya spotlight

[snivlem]

Hi, I tried searching but Fog is 3 letters and not available for the search.

Basically is it possible to hook up a vray fog node to a native Maya spotlight? I've tried and it doesn't seem to work but I could be missing something.

I know of the bounding box method with an opacity shader for the surfaceshader and fog for the environment slot but that means the fog is affected by other lights in the scene as well.

Thanks.

[vlado]

Hi, I tried searching but Fog is 3 letters and not available for the search.

Basically is it possible to hook up a vray fog node to a native Maya spotlight? I've tried and it doesn't seem to work but I could be missing something.

I know of the bounding box method with an opacity shader for the surfaceshader and fog for the environment slot but that means the fog is affected by other lights in the scene as well.

Thanks.

Put a cone around the spot light and connect it to the VRayEnvironmentFog shader through the relationship editor. You can also link to the VRayEnvironmentFog only the lights that you want to affect it and set the light mode to "Override shape lights" (or alternatively only link to the cone the lights that you want to affect it from the light linking editor). Unfortunately the light selection only works in the most recent builds (there was a bug in older builds).

Best regards,
Vlado

[snivlem]

Thanks Vlado, again.