VRayDomeLight primary visibility bug?

[snivlem]

Hi,

I have attached a scene. I can't work out why the domelight is not showing up in the render.

• Primary visibility is checked
• No "Skip Rendering" nodes present
• LOD and Visibility is on in the shape node.

[2014/Sep/9|11:59:33] V-Ray: V-Ray for Maya version 2.45.01, revision 24870 from Aug 22 2014, 08:12:05
[2014/Sep/9|11:59:33] V-Ray: V-Ray core version is 2.55.01

Maya 2015 SP3

dome.zip

[t.petrov]

Are you sure you've not set the Invisible attribute on the LightDome shape node?

[ivaylo.ivanov]

The scene seems ok and renders fine with 3.0. Should check what is going on with 2.45

[snivlem]

Are you sure you've not set the Invisible attribute on the LightDome shape node?

Unfortunately I don't believe it's possible to do this? At least in my version, it is possible on the transform node only;

The scene seems ok and renders fine with 3.0. Should check what is going on with 2.45

Make sure to render through newCamera1 which is a physical camera. The odd thing is the dome light appears in the persp camera, but not the physical camera.
It shouldn't be a matter of exposure because it doesn't turn up in the alpha either.

[snivlem]

Here is a screencast to show the issue if it helps;

https://screencast.autodesk.com/main...7-fdb3a8278f14

[georgi.zhekov]

Hello,

To make the DomeLight show up - you can turn on "Auto Render Clip Plane" option for the camera or just turn up the "Far Clip Plane" to its max value.

Thank you,
Georgi Zhekov

[snivlem]

Thank you very much for your help. It is a relief it is such a simple thing.

I didn't realise the domelight was an object "per se", but it makes sense since now since it also contributes to the alpha.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Well, it's more of a side effect . The dome light should be "infinite far", and always visible I think. There is an option to make it invisible, so we should fix this clipping.