Light Linking does kill self shadow

V-Ray V-Ray for Maya Issues
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Is there any reason why light linking does kill the self shadow.
If you use Illuminate by default off like shown in the video.
lightlink.zip (1.29 MB)

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Second issue if i create a new object it gets illuminated. Which should not happen if im in “NOT” illuminate by default mode.

3

I cannot reproduce this on a similar scene - could you attach yours here? From what I see you’re using a VRayLight, which does not have the “illuminate by default” option. What do you mean by your second question?

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Here is a new video and the scene.

lightlink.zip (26.2 KB)

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And here a video with the “adding new assets to the scene” issue.

Just check how Arnold is doing it.

6

Thanks for the report. I’ve logged both issues (internal bug-tracker id: VMAYA-11250) for developer investigation. For now, manually linking/delinking may be used as a workaround.

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Thanks!
Its a lot of work todo it manually if there are hundreds of objects in the scene.