studio2s Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Has anyone come across this "error"? I have a slight area light on my main (shadow casting) mr Sun. It looks great. The edge of the light diffuses ever so slightly. Fantastic! Now, I make a nice marble floor (using A+D material). It is very high gloss/reflective....you know, the good high end stuff. Anyway, the reflection of the diffused area of light on the wall reflects as a straight edge of light on the marble. It SHOULD reflect the diffused area, but it looks, ONLY in the reflection, as if I have the area light parameters turned off. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Thomas Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 At a guess I would say perhaps there is a big difference in intensity between the mr sun and area light. Since the reflected light will be attenuated maybe only the sunlight is strong enough to show up. Or maybe the area light is only affecting diffuse and not specular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studio2s Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 The only light in the scene is the sun with area parameters turned on to soften the edge. I'm not sure if this is what you are referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelperfectg Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Thats actually a bug with the A&D material. A while back I logged it and heard back from ADSK that it's been fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studio2s Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 Fixed? How and when? LOL. I'm on SP2 and I obviously still have that problem. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelperfectg Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Good question...I'll have to guess and say Max10 because this was only a few weeks ago that I found out it was fixed. Plus I don't think they'll release any new updates for Max9 since the next version is always announced at SIGGRAPH, which is next month. Hopefully I'm wrong in my assumptions though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studio2s Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 is that the Production Boost? We installed that and found more problems in it than pre SP. So we went with the SPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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