Difference in raytraced Shadows with Nightly 20121109?

[CAPTURE_MM]

Hello,

last friday we upgraded to the 20121109 Nighlty build.
There seems to be a difference with the interpretation of the Raytrace Shadow Attributes.

In our Testscene with a directional light, "Use Ray Trace Shadows" checked and a value of 0.5 for the Light Angle there´s a significant difference between this nightly build and our previous installation.
In the old one the shadows were slightly softned while in this nightly the shadows are completely blurred.
Is this intended?


Thanks in advance

[vlado]

Can you show me?

Best regards,
Vlado

[CAPTURE_MM]

I attached a picture for you.


The light responsible for the shadow is a simple maya directional light.

[emil.kirichev]

Hi, can you send us this particular scene so we can check it out here?
You can either attach it here or send it to emil.kirichev@chaosgroup.com
I did some tests and older and newer builds show the same result here, so I'll need your scene to see what's exactly going on.

Best,
Emil

[CAPTURE_MM]

Hello Emil,

you´ve got mail

[vlado]

Thanks; we could reproduce the problem - will fix.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

So this is fixed for the next night build tomorrow - sorry about that.

Best regards,
Vlado

[CAPTURE_MM]

thank you very much!
Glad you guys are so damn fast