Lights

[avander]

New to the program so bare with me but I'm trying to render a retangualr light and it continuously shows up black. Why is this? I can make it disappear altogether but have yet to find a way to make it produce light. Do I have to turn off the sun? Any help would be appreciated.

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Lights

Upgrade to the newest version...its free, so there's reason not to. The defaults have changed in the new version and it will solve your problem.

[Jackson_cg]

Re: Lights

As a relative newbie to V-Ray myself, my advice would be that sometimes it pays to experiment with extremely high or low figures, then bring them down or up in logarithmic increments until you're seeing results close to what you want and then fine tune. As Damien said, this was much more of an issue with older versions, but depending on your physical camera settings it can still be worth trying, if only to give you an idea of what range different V-Ray parameters operate within. For example, regardless of version, bump maps can sometimes need repeat parameters of several decimal places (e.g water ripples).

[avander]

Re: Lights

Upgrade to the newest version...its free, so there's reason not to. The defaults have changed in the new version and it will solve your problem.

Do you have a link to it? I've been looking everywhere on this site but I can't seem to find it...Still getting used to these forums.

[thomthom]

Re: Lights

Follow the link in my signature. It takes you to the download repository.