Hi,
thx a ton for Vantage…Its a gift for me 
But, it has some issues 
Every scene i want to use in vantage has always the same issue:
Vraylight (type disc) in vray5 becomes vraylight (type plane) in vantage.
Lens effects inVantage are very simple compare to vray ones.
Here is one example: CPU render in 3dsmax and vray5 update1 and Vantage render through Livelink
How can i setup lights and lens effects to get the same render?
Thx in advance for your answer
Hi
Disc lights are supported, as listed here: Chaos Vantage
However we do not have the VFB lens effects in Vantage. We only have a bloom effect (which is our own implementation). These lights will only look the same if you disable the effects both in V-Ray and in Vantage.
The light is still a disc, but the Bloom effect makes it look a bit more rectangular. You can disable it with the button in the top right corner.
We are going to add the ability to save EXR at some point. When we do, you should be able to load the EXR back into V-Ray’s VFB to apply V-Ray effects and color corrections to it.
Hi
thx for your reply.
Il a waiting for this new ability.
But i hope you’ll developp a “real” lens effects like in vray. It’s so usefull.
By the way, i discover that my issue only appear when i switch directly from vray to Vantage through Live-Link…It works well if i export and send the current vrscene to Vantage. The bug is smaller 
Interesting… Could you post a comparison image - how different is it when imported through a vrscene file? It could be a bug in live link we didn’t know about.
By the way, i discover that my issue only appear when i switch directly from vray to Vantage through Live-Link…It works well if i export and send the current vrscene to Vantage. The bug is smaller
What happens if you restart the live link ? The disc light uses a light texture to implement the disc shape and light textures are currently not updated correctly during a live link.
Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev
Can you send the scene for investigation ?
Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev
By the way, i discover that my issue only appear when i switch directly from vray to Vantage through Live-Link…It works well if i export and send the current vrscene to Vantage. The bug is smaller
I am assuming the issue is with the live link update when you add a new disc light while the live link is running.
I am not seeing a problem when starting a live link on the already setup scene.
QA will also take a look just in case I am missing something.
However, I am not sure what you mean by The bug is smaller when you load a .vrscene ?
Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev
I am not seeing a problem when starting a live link on the already setup scene.
Actually, I was able to reproduce the issue under certain conditions with some help from QA.
I will investigate further. Thanks again for the scene.
Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev
Hi Vladimir,
Yes, that’s right
i was talking about “smaller issue” because i have also the regret that there is no lens effects in Vantage
Did you plane to include them in a few while ?
Vraylight (type disc) in vray5 becomes vraylight (type plane) in vantage.
What we figured out is that if you have “enable lights” unchecked and then load a .vrscene or start a live link, the disc lights will not load correctly, same for textured rectangle lights.
This is fixed in our internal builds and will be in the next patch or update.
i was talking about “smaller issue” because i have also the regret that there is no lens effects in Vantage
I understand now, thanks for the clarification.
Did you plane to include them in a few while ?
We are considering it, but we don’t have exact plans, there is a lot of other stuff to do before that which we might decide is more urgent.
Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev
