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Color ML + Sun Caustics
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:48 am
by rusteberg
i was rendering an exterior scene with of building with ags windows and several staged emitters inside using multilight/color. left the rendering and came back to it to find "white dots" all over the place, so in the multilight tab panel, i dropped the first emitter down to "0" and the "white dots" went away... every other emitter was fine. i thought it might have been intersecting something, or internal error of some sort with mesh, so deleted the emitter mesh causing problem and hit render. same thing. so i did a test.
placed 4 emitters inside box with AGS lid. turned on multilight/color rendered. first emitter in multilight panel causing same issue. went back to scene, deleted first emitter and hit render again. same thing. (same emitter cloned 4 times and renamed) if the first emitter mesh in the list is cloned and given a unique material name, it works fine. seems that only the first emitter in the multilight tab panel causes the issue...
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:01 am
by rusteberg
seems that any light passing through AGS causes issue for only the first emitter listed in the multilight panel (not just inside closed object)
setup: (in this scene, "emitter-2" caused problems since it was first in list, whereas same object and material is listed second in list below)
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:16 am
by tom
I'm trying here and cannot reproduce the noise. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, could you pass the scene?
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:23 am
by rusteberg
rendering from Max plugin. have not tried to replicate in studio.
i can export the scene to .mxs and send you link via pm, you want it?
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:24 am
by tom
An MXS in RAR/ZIP would be more than enough.
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:35 am
by rusteberg
Identical setup to my second post:
.max File:
Here
.mxs File:
Here
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:20 am
by pipcleo
getting the same problem with an interior scene.
First emitter out of four causing yellow dots thru the scene which disappear when this emitter is turned to zero in multilight.
There is no ags in the scene however.
Re: Multi Emitter inside closed object with AGS opening(Problem)
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:03 am
by tom
Bug confirmed and it's not specific to AGS.
It's a Color ML + Sun Caustics issue, thanks for reporting.
Re: Color ML + Sun Caustics
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:31 pm
by Richard
Could you guys add another 3 emitters to that scene and see if for you it disables the environment mix slider?
Re: Color ML + Sun Caustics
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:46 pm
by tom
Fixed in 2.01