Hello We are in early testing stages of VRay for Maya here at Chrysler and I have a few questions regarding the VRayLightDome. When I apply a texture of an environment to the Dome Tex it is displayed as if it were cut. Is there a way to re-size the texture on the dome so it actually fits/is scaled …

Hi Przemek, have you check the Dome Spherical option so you get the full spherical image and not only half of it? Yannick

Hi Yannick. I did try it but the floor or the bottom of the environment map wraps to the bottom of the sphere. I need to place a plane under the car to get shadows and it cuts off the env map. Am I simply creating the environment wrong?

You should be able to create a plan with a Wrapper shader to catch the shadow but make the plane invisible in the reflection, allowing your hdr image to reflect in the car. I personally like to have the plane to reflect in the car as I usually project my backplate on it. Yannick

Thanks Yannick, that makes a whole lot more sense now. Merci :slight_smile:

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Yannick October 19, 2011, 12:54pm 6

No worries

V-Ray 3.0 is scheduled for March next year ??

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