Crash when using Double Switch and Rect Light

[stevegh]

Say you want to have the same texture in 2 lights but you want the UVs to be flipped on one of the lights. On a plane you could do this with a double switch in the place 2d texture, but if you try to add a vray light to the input list it crashes Maya. Is this something that could be fixed or perhaps the workaround is to use mesh lights?

[vlado]

Can you post a scene?

Best regards,
Vlado

[stevegh]

Sure.

Attached is a screenshot of how it works with normal Maya nodes. The documentation can be found here.



Try adding the ramp to the texture slot of two V-Ray rect lights (or even a mesh light), and middle mouse drag them into the double switch inputs to see the crash. Trying to rebuild the network from scratch yields the same result.

[svetlozar.draganov]

Thanks for the details - we managed to reproduce the crash.
We'll add it into our system and we'll let you know when it is fixed.

[svetlozar.draganov]

The same crash actually happens with any Maya Light.

Most likely light nodes are not supported.
According to Maya Docs, isShape node supports Shape-nodes but it is not specified whether it supports Light-Shape-nodes or only Surface-Shape-nodes.
http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...ingSwitch.html

[stevegh]

Ah, well chalk up one more thing about Maya I love! Thanks for tracking that down.