Light Linking does kill self shadow

[oglu]

Is there any reason why light linking does kill the self shadow.
If you use Illuminate by default off like shown in the video.

[oglu]

Second issue if i create a new object it gets illuminated. Which should not happen if im in "NOT" illuminate by default mode.

[hermit.crab]

I cannot reproduce this on a similar scene - could you attach yours here? From what I see you're using a VRayLight, which does not have the "illuminate by default" option. What do you mean by your second question?

[oglu]

Here is a new video and the scene.
https://youtu.be/XC5oc3NzCbk

[oglu]

And here a video with the "adding new assets to the scene" issue.
https://youtu.be/deLGVD-1Wqw

Just check how Arnold is doing it.

[hermit.crab]

Thanks for the report. I've logged both issues (internal bug-tracker id: VMAYA-11250) for developer investigation. For now, manually linking/delinking may be used as a workaround.

[oglu]

Thanks!
Its a lot of work todo it manually if there are hundreds of objects in the scene.