Hello, We have come across a very strange problem with animated Vray lights and file referencing in Maya. In short, animated Vray lights (animated translation) used to light referenced geometry do not render properly on render farm. They render ok only on workstations used to create them- on all ot…

Can you get us a scene for this to vraymaya@chaosgroup.com ? I can’t think right away what would be causing it so it would be best to look at the scene. Best regards, Vlado

Ok, I doubt many people ran into this one but just in case somebody does- it seems that current version has an issue with animated lights illuminating referenced geometry while being set to Watts. Switching back to default units and everything else remaining the same, resolved the issue.

Hi Vladimir, Do you use Maya batch? It’s not a rendering bug, but an issue during the scene opening. If you are able to open the scene properly on the master machine, you can export to vrscene. Since we’ve dropped support for old verions of Maya (like 2008), I will reimplement this functionality in…

The issue is happening when loading file with references if vray plugin was not already loaded. So you can also check this as a work around. I will fix it in the nightlies.

Problem with animated Vray lights affecting referenced environment

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Just sent the scene. Thanks Vlado!

Best regards,
Vladimir Mastilovic

Thank you Chaos Group!

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Problem with animated Vray lights affecting referenced environment

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