Scaling Area Light drives the UV size

[Yannick]

Hi,
Now that we can scale Vray area light, could the scale drives the U and V size? and the other way around as well.

Thanks,

Yannick

[chuckie7413]

Hi Yannick. I guess this can already be down via the conenction editor in maya.

But it would be nice to have a little check box under the Use Tex option to link texture repeat uv to light scale.

Rich

[vlado]

Hi,
Now that we can scale Vray area light, could the scale drives the U and V size? and the other way around as well.

Thanks,

Yannick

The effect of the transformation scale and the U/V size is cumulative; they both have an effect. So if one drives the other, you'll be effectlively applying the same scaling twice.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Yannick]

Hi Vlado,
thanks for your answer.
It just feels we now have to scaling way that are doing the same.
Maybe the UV size is now obsolete?

[vlado]

Well, technically when you create a cube, you can also use scaling to change its size, so you don't need any parameters like length/width/height. Same for the sphere, torus etc. It's just more convenient to have those parameters than not.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Yannick]

ok fair enough