Lightbulb in RT won't allow shadows

[Mokiki]

Ok let me first off start with I'm still new to the whole vray/rendering business. So if this question is rather foolish pls bear with me.

Currently I'm trying to render a simple scene lamp on the table with a transparent lightbulb and a light inside. Vray RT shows the light inside the lightbulb and it hits the plane beneath it but as soon as I enable shadows for the light the whole scene becomes black(no light gets through).
Hope somebody can help me.

[jacksc02]

you will need to check "affect shadows" in your glass material

[Mokiki]

Hey jacksc02 thanks for the reply. But sadly the option "affect shadows" was on from the beginning in my glass material. I now managed to actually see my light source within the glass but nothing will come through.

[jacksc02]

is refractive caustics on?
Also what type of light are you using? a vray light or a max light?

[Mokiki]

I'm using a vray light. Actually I think I tried a bunch of them. I'm not quite sure about the refactive caustics option sadly I'm not near my work pc right now and I can only double check it again tomorrow.
On a sidenote: Wouldn't it work with max lights or would the settings be different?

[MoonDoggie]

What happens if you turn the light multiplier up 100x? You say the "whole scene turns black". Do you see the light even?

[3DMK]

Select your light bulb glass
- goto object properties
-turn off Gernerate shadows so the glass won't cast shadows

Cheers

[Mokiki]

Thanks for all the replies. It was what 3DMK suggested. I forgot to turn off cast shadow. Man I feel stupid now. Again thanks for the help.

[Mokiki]

Mmmm another question which is kinda related to the problem I had. Does VRAY RT has a problem with different IES profiles/or different light sources in general? The difference I get between RT and adv render is miles away from each other. Same goes for photometric and VrayIES. The result in RT is usual pretty dark but when I render it the whole scene is way too bright.

[super gnu]

as far as i am aware ies/photometric lights arent supported at all yet in vray RT?

[Mokiki]

Well seems like I have to avoid using those then if I want a reliable preview in vray rt.
Still thanks for the answer.

[Mokiki]

Sorry for double post but I just found this under supported features for vray RT:
V-Ray lights: VRayLight (Plane, Sphere and Dome types), VRaySun and VRayIES.

If I understand that correctly I must be doing something very wrong.

[super gnu]

ok yes my mistake.. it is indeed supported. doesnt help much with your issue though.

[Mokiki]

Tried to make several different scenes to see if I screwed something up. Even reinstalled Vray but currently no luck.