What are the limitations on Photon mapping usage?

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Hi everyone,

I would like to know what sorts of lights, materials, and objects that don’t work with VRay global photon mapping?

Thanks in advance.

Your’s

2

I think you can use any lights, vray, standard, and photometric. (photometric are slower though).

The materials have to be vray materials.

I think all objects work.

3

the photon map needs actual lights in order to work; it cannot be used to produce indirect illumination caused by environment lights (skylight) or from standard omni lights without inverse-square falloff.

[ → manual]

4

Thanks. :smile: