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Rename Lights in Lightmix

Hi Always rename my objects, materials and lights, but sometimes in a rush I forget to do it and I have all configured, then if I rename the light, I lose the Lightmix config, could we have a way to preserve lights config or rename the lights dire...
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez 14 days ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 1 Declined

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 9 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Planned

VRayLight Include/Exclude layer

It would be very helpful if we could add an option to include/exclude whole layers from light affect list.
Georgi Bonchev 8 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 1 Pending

Cylindrical type V-Ray Light

New type for the V-Ray Light - Cylindrical. Fast and easy way of creating a new form of render-friendly lights.
Peter Matanov 8 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Planned

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 10 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 1 Pending

Add Include/Exclude objects by click

In Corona you can add objects to Include/Exclude by clicking them using a + button Having this option its very useful not only for Lights
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez 9 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 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 9 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 about 2 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 2 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 3 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 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 8 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Lights 0 Pending