Problem with Light Linking

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I recently started to have problems with my light linking, it was working fine earlier, now when I click my “selection” in the relationship editor (light centric or object centric) to choose what will be affected it does not highlight or show me what is going on. I thought it might be the scene, but even on a brand new scene with just a couple of objects it still happens.
My relationship editor is working fine, just not with my vray lights.

Anyone care to shine a light on this… ta dah dah

Regards,
DM

2

Hi,

What version of maya and v-ray are you using?
Does it work with maya’s standard lights?

/Teodor

3

Hi petrov,

it works fine with maya lights, just not on v-ray lights.
maya 2012 vray 1.5 SP1

4

Do you have a scene for this?

Best regards,
Vlado

5

It has happened in all my scenes, if you want I can send you one to your email?

6

Hi I am still having problems with light linking, it is an important feature and I have no idea why it is not working.

7

Is this a nightly build? We do not have an official V-Ray 1.5 for Maya 2012 build.
Can you attach an example scene or send it to support@chaosgroup.com ?

8

Scene was sent to the email provided!

thanks

9

shouldnt light linking work with selection sets..?
its doin nothing here…

10

This is not supported yet, but we added in our “to do” list.
Thank you for your feedback.

11

Hm, is this still about light linking, or about the VRayLightSelect element? You are talking about light linking (which works fine for me here), but I see an issue about the VRayLightSelect element in our bug tracker.

Best regards,
Vlado

12

There was a bit of misunderstanding here.

shouldnt light linking work with selection sets..?
After all it seems that even the Maya native lights can’t be light linked with selection sets. So this is probably Maya limitation.

13

maybe its a maya limitation… but it would be very handy to get selection sets working with light linking…
its much easier to add an new imported objects to a selction set than do all the light linking…

this could also be working with object IDs for multimatte renderelements…
just add a vray ID to the selection set and add all the objects to that set…
the object itself should keep there own IDs…

14

Thank you for the feedback.
I will forward your requests to the developers for consideration.