Light Intensity gone bad

[bradon]

we notice an issue when we open a file in maya without vray plug in loaded. It will change some or all of the light intensity to be 1.#INF

so the renders obviously turn out really dark or really bright when the light intensity set to this 1.#INF value.

currently what we have to do is launch maya, and make sure that we load the vray plug in and then load the scene file. that seems to avoid having the lights intensity change to this strange code.

we have some computers that have the autoload function set and it vray will load on launch on these computers we dont have this problem. on other computers we notice the autoload function sometimes doesnt work. I assume this is equally a maya issue as much as vray but I just wanted to point it out for anyone to take advantage from. I think this was the issue that was related to my previous past posts about the image being different on all computers.

what we need to figure out is how to always autoload vray on launch of maya. the maya autoload function seems to reset itself on crashing so constantly have to check to make sure that autoload is on, otherwise it will mess up our light intensity values.

perhaps there is another way?

[snivlem]

Put this in your userSetup.mel script:

if(!`pluginInfo -query -l -n vrayformaya`) loadPlugin "vrayformaya";

[bradon]

that mel worked great! we applied the script to all render nodes now were cooking. thanks!

[vlado]

Thanks for the pointer and the work-around; we are looking into this.

Best regards,
Vlado

[snivlem]

I think it's primarily a Maya issue, since the dawn of time Maya sometimes forgets to load mental ray and various other plugins is as well. I think she's getting old

[ivaylo.ivanov]

This will be fixed in the next nightly build.