Unused vraySettings attributes are confusing

[Fredrik Averpil]

I just noticed that the following attributes have no effect in Maya 2017:
vraySettings.startFrame
vraySettings.endFrame

It seems V-Ray is instead using the corresponding attributes from the defaultRenderGlobals node:
defaultRenderGlobals.startFrame
defaultRenderGlobals.endFrame

Could you please remove the unused attributes or (even better) have them reflect the equivalent value on the defaultRenderGlobals node?
They are very confusing.

There are potentially more attributes than these ones (which I haven't found) which are seemingly unused.

[yolov]

We're looking into this to see why this is happening, although it shouldn't. What V-Ray version are you using?

[Fredrik Averpil]

Thanks for having a look at this. This is on V-Ray 3.40.06 build 27073 for Maya 2017 on Windows 10, 64-bit.

[yolov]

It seems that those attributes are indeed not used, but it's not by design, we accidentally broke it. Ideally, what we used to do before, was to keep the defaultRenderGlobals in sync with our settings, but at some point we broke it.
I've made a note to fix this and we'll try to do it for the next SP.

[Fredrik Averpil]

Hi Alex and many thanks for investigating this.

> I've made a note to fix this and we'll try to do it for the next SP.

That's great news!

Did you find other attributes which were also broken?
I suspect that this one could be another one: vraySettings.frameStep -> defaultRenderGlobals.byFrameStep

[yolov]

Yes, I think we got most of them.
.byFrameStep
.modifyExtension
.startExtension
.byExtension

[Fredrik Averpil]

That's great.