DomeLight "invisible" having no effect in perspective view

V-Ray V-Ray GPU Issues
1

Hi,

Uploaded scene to FTP, filename “Invisible_Domelight.zip”

Setup:
Simple scene, VRayPlane as matte groundplane, TorusKnot object with metal shader, a single domelight with a texture (HDRI) and a vray camera

Software:
3ds max Design 2014 SP5
VRay 3.30.05

Issue:
The “invisible” checkbox seems to have no effect when rendering from a perspective view.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open Scene
2) Maximize the Camera viewport, hit Render; RT will start and show you an image where the HDRI is visible in the background.
3) Stop RT, change viewport to a perspective viewport, hit render again; RT will start but won’t show the HDRI in the background.

This setup is with VRayCamera exposure enabled, so not a “classic” HDRI setup in that way, but it should work. Anyways, you can check the uploaded scene.

2

Apparently, after re-starting max it works as intended…strange.

3

Note that when you change views (f.e. camera to perspective with different exposure) that have different exposure setups while ActiveShade is running, RT must be restarted.

4

Yeah, noticed that, too. WOuld be something for the wishlist to have it also fixed I guess… :slight_smile: