IES Light Soft Shadows option not working

[seq]

Hello Chaosgroup,

using V-Ray for Maya 2.4 (the official release) it seems that the soft shadow function for IES lights doesn't work anymore.

Can you please check?

Attached a scene.

Thanks,
Lars


seq_131121.zip

[yolov]

Hi,

It seems your .ies file doesn't contain information about the light shape. When using soft shadows, the light shape is defaulted to the .ies file contents in the Light Shape roll-out (from IES file). In this case, vray will consider the light shadows as coming from a point light. You can also change the shape to another one to have a different shadow effect with soft shadows. See our help for reference - http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help...m#VRayLightIES

[seq]

Thanks, Yolov. My psoting was a bit hasty. RTFM

[yolov]

Hope everything goes well. It never hurts to double and triple check stuff over here, so thanks for the info.

[seq]

Yes, everything is fine. We used another IES-Profile and the client is quite happy with the result!

By the way: Any news concerning the 3.0 version for Maya? As we use BF quite a lot, we are very excited about the speed gain!

[yolov]

All in due time. Once 3.0 for Maya becomes available in any way, there will be an announcement.