Vray NEXT - adaptive domelight artifacts - when can we please expect some progress?

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Hello,
the otherwise quite perfect adaptive domelight becomes unusable for the final stills as it produces these known large square patches of uneven lighting:
as seen bellow - look around the bottom of the staircase area and concrete wall.

any idea when we can expect some progress or fix in this regard please?

Cheers
Martin

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Hello,
would you please send us the scene for investigation?

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As Philip said, it would be extremely helpful to take a look at the scene - we’ve done a couple of fixed already but I want to make sure your case is covered as well.

Best regards,
Vlado

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Sure guys, will wrap it up when i get to office and write a short summary of the project

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Ok… email with scene link and short description sent to Vlado.
Fingers crossed.
M

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Did you get the files?
I did not receive any confirmation.
Thanks!

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Hey Martin,

I’ve tested your scene using the V-Ray build that was saved with. No artifacts here.

But .. you have the so called back-plates with all options that are known for making trouble with the adaptive dome light -

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Thanks Peter,

would you please then care to share some know-how on how to make a controllable backplate that doesnt affect GI in any way and doesnt receive/cast shadow?
Whats the correct and “compatible” way please?
Or is it “in the works” that these option will not make any trouble whatsoever to dome lights?

Thanks a lot!
M

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Yes, that’s the idea. There are a lot of “unphysical” tweaks that users like to use and the best solution is to make them work with the adaptive dome light.
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Can you elaborate a little more? Do you use precalculated LC? Can you send the scene with the teapots to check your settings?

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Hi Peter,

i just send you the file via mail. I don’t use precalculated LC.

Best regards,
Ralf

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Thanks for this Peter!

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I have a scene here showing the square artifact as well.

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Is there a new build I can test to see if the problem went away in the image shown above?

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I’m afraid not. I’ll ping you when there are newer fixes related to this. Until then you can check your scene for unphysical tweaks.

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Hm, some objects are set to not cast shadows. However, with around 3000 parts. I can’t identify which parts have that attribute.
Looking forward to a fix, because such a situation is quite common.

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Use this to check which objects have those attributes: Mr. Clean - Scene Cleanup Tools for Max and VRay | ScriptSpot