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Star trails with the Night sky in VRaySun

I want to achieve these motion-blurred trails left by the star, similar to when we have a super slow exposure time.
Dimitar Panayotov 2 days ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending

Change the size of the V-Ray Plane light proportionally

Would be possible to add a lock aspect ration button next to the light's width and height parameters to be possible to change the light size proportionally?
Mustafa Hadid 6 days ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending

Support for hierarchies and layers in include/exclude lists

It would be very useful if we had support for hierarchies (pick a parent and the children will be added automatically) and layers in include/exclude lists. Picking lists by picking explicit objects is very cumbersome and doesn't adjust to scene ch...
Martin Geupel 11 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 4 Pending

Shadow softness/sharpness controls in V-RayDome

Add shadow softness/sharpness controls in V-RayDome (with HDRI). (Control the size of light-generating pixels within HDRI?) In other words, if the Dome texture sampling generates internal lights, it would be nice to be able to adjust the size of t...
yuji yanmaychi about 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 1 Pending

Light filters like Barndoors, Gobos, Attenuation,...

There's currently only a very limited set of ways to control vray lights. Other renderers have a wide range of ways to shape and affect light sources. Ranging from simple barndoor controls, over spotlight control and softness to focus tinting and ...
Martin Geupel 11 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending

Vray Light Roundness & Soft Edge

Similar to Arnold Lights where you can change the shape and soft edges of the light, suitable for reflections, currently we can use VraySoftBox map to achieve soft edges but its nott very practical
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez 6 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending

VraySun negative Horizon Offset

Hey guys, it would be great if we could shift the horizon upwards by typing in negative values in the corresponding field. Right now the value is capped at 0, you can not type in negative values.
Marcus Peters 4 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 2 Pending

Area shadows for spotlights, direct lights, etc in Vray GPU

When using Standard lights such as Target Spot, Target Direct (and also other 3Ds Max lights such as Photometric Target Light) area shadows aren't supported. Please add support for area shadows so the quality achieved in CPU can be replicated when...
Suzanne Doherty 10 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending

Seed for Clouds contrails in Vray Sun

The process for adding contrails its very limited, sometimes I just want to put a single contrail and I need to offset manually, using a seed could be more practical also to have different ressults and places in the clouds
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez 12 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending

Add Light Grouping Functionality in the VRAY Light Mix List inside of VFB

Add the ability to combine light selects into folders. This will improve the management of the lights inside VFB.It would be nice to have a folder similar to the one for the color adjustment layers. This way different recalculated groups of lights...
zhushitong zhushitong 10 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending