[moreschipaolo]

(Maya 2014 SP3 - OSX 10.10.1 - Maxwellrender 3.0.1.3)

there is no longer the Possibility in the lights of maya to upload a custom design? (Custom Geometry)

paolo

[Mihnea Balta]

No, we removed that because it was superfluous in the new emitter model. Spot emitters in 3.1 ignore the geometry they are assigned to and behave as if they are assigned to a sphere, because that's the only way to get correct lighting from them. We could have kept the feature for point lights, but it's much easier to just use a MXS reference if you need this.

[moreschipaolo]

so now how can I do? I usually use all lights with external geometry and the mesh that should emit light named with the suffix "emitter" ...

[moreschipaolo]

then it would be appropriate that dall'Hypershade when you run the command "Edit> Delete Unused Node" are not done away with those nodes that are assigned to a mesh of a .mxs external ...