Hi, I have attached a scene. I can’t work out why the domelight is not showing up in the render. Primary visibility is checked No “Skip Rendering” nodes present LOD and Visibility is on in the shape node. [2014/Sep/9|11:59:33] V-Ray: V-Ray for Maya version 2.45.01, revision 24870 from Aug 22 201…

Are you sure you’ve not set the Invisible attribute on the LightDome shape node?

The scene seems ok and renders fine with 3.0. Should check what is going on with 2.45

[image] render history set A, set B causes a Sketchup crash Are you sure you’ve not set the Invisible attribute on the LightDome shape node? Unfortunately I don’t believe it’s possible to do this? At least in my version, it is possible on the transform node only; The scene seems ok and rende…

Hello, To make the DomeLight show up - you can turn on “Auto Render Clip Plane” option for the camera or just turn up the “Far Clip Plane” to its max value. Thank you, Georgi Zhekov

Thank you very much for your help. It is a relief it is such a simple thing. :slight_smile: I didn’t realise the domelight was an object “per se”, but it makes sense since now since it also contributes to the alpha.

Well, it’s more of a side effect :). The dome light should be “infinite far”, and always visible I think. There is an option to make it invisible, so we should fix this clipping.

VRayDomeLight primary visibility bug?

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snivlem September 9, 2014, 11:40pm 5

Here is a screencast to show the issue if it helps;

https://screencast.autodesk.com/main/details/f777d1f4-53c5-4862-a8e7-fdb3a8278f14

An assortment of OSL shaders for your perusal

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