Same Shadows, Different Lights

[DanGrover]

Hi guys,

 

I have an odd problem I've never encountered before. Long story short, my scene is using a combination of VRay Lights and Standard max lights. The VRay ones are all behaving nice as pie, but the standard ones are not.

 

They appear fine, except that the shadow parameters seem to be isntanced. Nothing else is - I can alter the multiplier no problem, the colour too, but if I change the shadow type, it changes for all the standard lights. Even altering the shadow parameters (for example changing the area shadow parameters) changes across all of them.

 

I've never seen this problem before! My "solution" at the moment is just to use VRay lights, but I'd like to know what's going wrong! Any suggestions are appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Dan

[aaronrumple]

...sounds like the standard lights are all instanced?

[DanGrover]

...sounds like the standard lights are all instanced?

Thanks, but alas they aren't. Aside from the button to de-instance not being available, if they were instanced then the colour and the intensity would instance along with it. I'm wondering if it's possible to just instance one section - like the shadows - and that I might have accidentally done this?

 

Thanks

[aaronrumple]

Then the multiplier parameters have been wired. Alt+5 to open the Parameter Wiring dialog. You should be able to find the multiplier and disconnect them.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I have had a similar issue recently. I had a direct light, and spot cones. If I switched either of the lights from direct shadows to area shadows, they both switched. Different types of lights, no instancing or wiring that I am aware of.

 

The same happened when I switched the subdivisions on the light shadows. If I switched them on the direct light, the spot cones also switched, and vise versa.

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Sounds to me like you've got "General Parameters: Shadows: Use Global Settings" turned on for those lights.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Sounds to me like you've got "General Parameters: Shadows: Use Global Settings" turned on for those lights.

 

Yep. That was it for me. I seem to have missed something I should have thought of.