Updating to Maya 3.6.1 broke scene lighting & opacity maps

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2021-03-16 at 4:43 pm #39512

KurtGR
Customer

Hi, still having trouble with directional lighting/shadows – I recently updated my project to take advantage of area lights, and features from previous versions, and it seems the fix made to scaled directional lights has caused an issue with my scene again.

It appears the size of the scene has something to do with it, the shadows for objects are “floating” and losing resolution.

Here’s a test scene to look at – https://we.tl/t-nNcTzfYLiH

I had shadows working fine before I updated, after scaling the light down to 1,1,1 – this seems like a separate issue now.

Also my distant “tree” alpha cards don’t show in-engine now when I launch Verge3D, has there been a change to how opacity works with the updates? (see distant tree’s in screenshot)

Thanks!

2021-03-17 at 8:01 am #39522

Mikhail Luzyanin
Staff

Please, can you isolate not properly working object and delete all other thing, also prove some screenshots how they must look and how the look now (wrong). Also if this object contain materials with textures, please attach them to the example.

Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

2021-03-17 at 4:23 pm #39539

KurtGR
Customer

Hi, I don’t know how else I can explain it – the information is there in the screenshot, the directional shadows are broken. I have already isolated the objects because it appears to be an issue with the whole environment (something to do with directional light scaling, which is an issue I reported before and was changed in the last version), don’t worry about textures, it’s a flat shaded environment.

This is how the shadows should look (worked on a previous version of Verge, before the changes)

2021-03-18 at 9:48 am #39555

Mikhail Luzyanin
Staff

Thanks, we’ll try to find the issue.

Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

2021-03-18 at 12:48 pm #39562

KurtGR
Customer

Thank you!

2021-03-19 at 10:59 am #39585

Alexander Kovelenov
Staff

Hi,
Thanks for providing the scene file! This issue was caused by the large environement meshes, which were being used to calculate shadow volume. We’re going to fix it by the upcoming Verge3D preview, scheduled in a few days.

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2021-03-19 at 2:20 pm #39591

KurtGR
Customer

Cool thanks! Yeah I thought it was something to do with scene size – I managed to get it working in the last version, it’s been a bit temperamental.

Thanks again.
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