[micheloupatrick]

When using the FIRE preview from inside Maya 2011 (Mac OS 10.6.5), no light from emitters shows up. Only IBL and sky are working.
The same FIRE preview, with the same scene, works fine in Studio.

Am I missing some obvious setting????

[Mihnea Balta]

Make sure you're using the 2.x (layered) material, not the old one. The legacy material isn't supported in FIRE. If you are using the new material and it's still failing, can you send me a scene which triggers the problem? (mihnea.balta@gmail.com).

[micheloupatrick]

OK I've done some more tests.

When starting from scratch, everything works fine, so it's a legacy problem.
Mihnea, I've sent you a test scene (using only layered materials) : the pink side light isn't showing up when FIRE rendering from within Maya, but the same scene exported to mxs is OK when previewed from within Studio.

Anyway, no big deal since newly created scenes work fine.

[Mihnea Balta]

Multilight is enabled in the global render options, and FIRE gets confused. This obviously shouldn't happen, it's a bug that slipped in just before release. We will fix it in the next build, but until then you will have to manually turn off multilight before using FIRE.

[micheloupatrick]

Yes, Multilight is indeed the culprit. Easy to fix.

Again, no big deal, and the plug-in is otherwise working great. Hours of test, no single crash, no weird behavior. The interactive preview is truly a great addition!

Thanks for your help Mihnea.