Cylindrical VRay Light available?

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Dear users, I wonder if anyone has once created a light plugin for support of a cylindrical light geometry? I would like to use it in my scenes for fluorescent lamps.

Any tipps would be welcome.

Cheers

Robert

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Hi

you will have to use VrayLight mat for now.

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Hi Natty, I am using the vrayLightMaterial for this, but the main issue is, that you need a lot more samples in rendering to get results without noise because Vray treats the vraylightmaterial as indirect light I think. Thought there would be a solution for this.

Thanks

Robert

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You can use VrayLights in “Skylight portal” mode for that. Check this thread: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40960

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I just use 4 vrayplane lights set to invisible boxing in my cylinder with the light mat on - leaving that in for accurate reflections/refraction.

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Thanks Miraldo, this works good for me!

Robert