[bifterX]

hello

Im trying toast up a bounce emitter for a window ray on the floor, when I render I see black square, I've tried all combinations of hide but I still see the black square. Would I get a result by setting up the emitter as an MXM material rather than using the plugin and contextual menus? I've seen tuts showing how to do it in Studio - is this the way?

thanks
rob

[JDHill]

Can you please upload (to dropbox/etc) a simplified scene that demonstrates this? There should probably be a way, but I'm not clear on the setup, just going by description.

[bifterX]

Hi JD

Heres a link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4838ykj0ases ... y.skp?dl=0

just quickly put my last thought together in Mxed - seems to work in Fire in plugin - just gonna send to Render to check.

is it possible replicate this function within plugin?

sorry, I'm on v3 SU2016

also Im trying to get a particular shadow pattern through a sash window - obviously works via IBR but loads of noise - when I introduce a hidden emitter in the window I lose this detail and background reflection. its a bedroom with en-suite so loads of reflective surfaces - just setting the lighting up first.

cheers
rob

[JDHill]

Please try selecting the emitter plane's group, going to the Maxwell context menu, and enabling Hide from Camera, Hide from Global Illumination, and Hide from Reflections/Refractions. If I understand correctly, that should also work for the second scenario you outlined.

[bifterX]

yeah, i tried that, i initially made the mistake of applying the material directly to the face rather than the group and then applying the hide modifiers but i always got a square. now that I've done the emitter as an MXM - no square.

Im gonna try on the window emitter next- see if i can get the sash window show pattern.

[JDHill]

For the record, I don't have your MXMs, so I was just using the built-in emitter "character" type. It's possible to create an invisible emitter using MXED, but it's not necessary.

[bifterX]

The only difference I could see was that the mxm material had the 'vacuum' setting - transmit tan with to pure white and an Nd of 1

That's the only thing I can't set in the plugin - but it seems to have worked

[bifterX]

Sorry, transmittance