Face me components and shadows

V-Ray V-Ray Common Public
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I notice that V-Ray does not cast shadows from face-me / billboard components obeying the ‘shadows face sun’ feature in Sketchup. I found a post here from 2009 detailing this issue but nothing else later, and no solution.

It would be a huge benefit for me if this functionality could be incorporated into VRay. Previously I used Shaderlight, which did have this ability, so presumably it is not technically impossible to implement it in an external renderer. Is there any chance of seeing it in Vray?

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Hi,

Kindly note that the ‘Shadows face sun’ feature will not be supported with V-Ray and shadows will always be rendered physically correct relative to geometry and light source.

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@georgi.georgiev Is there a way to at least make the face-me components following the camera when scenes are set, for example, to turn around face-me components ?
Thank you.

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Since V-Ray adopts SketchUp’s viewport, the Face-me components will be rendered as seen in each scene