Cached Playback and invisible objects always visible in rendering

[doppelgaengerdigital]

When cached playback is active, my invisible objects (visibility set to 0) are visible during rendering, in bucket mode and progressive.

Using Maya 2020.4, VRay 5 hotfix 3, (v5.00.23)

[hermit.crab]

Which visibility options are you using? Could you attach the scene in the screencap here so we can take a look?

[doppelgaengerdigital]

just the standard maya visibility attribute in the channel box. I can send you the scene privately due to NDAs.
where should I send it to?

[hermit.crab]

I think I reproduced the issue - it seems the Visibility reverts to "On" when you change the frame on the timeline and when rendering animation. This seems to happen when disabling the visibility through the Channel Box. Try disabling the Visibility through the shape node (Object Display>Visibility) or apply a VRayObjectProperties node and disable the Primary visibility (Visibility Options) and see if it resolves the issue. Otherwise, I'll report the issue to our developers for investigation.

EDIT: The issue is logged (internal bug-tracker id: VMAYA-10372).

[doppelgaengerdigital]

thank you for logging the issue. I think this is essential, as I have to key the visibility sometimes and the channel box is where I can do this the best and fastest.