Clamped atmospherics

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Is there any way to get the max atmospherics (volume light) to return the unclamped values of the effect?

I have to make some convincing vater vapour above a grass area, and using volume lights looked like a good idea, but since my workflow is full in the hd range now (vray sky/sun, ect…) all the atmospherics render black.

Is there any vray aware volumetric solution coming along?

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The problem with atmospherics (volume light in particular) is that it clamps the output itself, rather than leaving this to the renderer.

There is some work on volumetric lights for V-Ray, which may or may not be available soon, depending on how much time we can spare for it.

Best regards,
Vlado

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Thanks for your reply Vlado!

I suppose the volumetric lights are developed as a generic volumetric shader, rather than just a specific tool to create light beams. Well, once its done, it definitely will be a powerful addition to Vray, worth to wait for, thats for sure.

Regards,