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Dan Wade
09-21-2004, 07:46 PM
Im using Mental Ray 3.3 in Maya 6. On some of my scenes, after some time of use, i get black dots over my image. I first thought it was a final gather issue, then possibly Maya area lights, but i think ive got it nailed down to raytraced shadows, even through spotlights.

has anyone had this problem before? Its not a memory problem, got lots of RAM. I never got anything like this in MR 3.2 in XSI and Maya...so im thinking its a pretty new bug maybe?

Cheers,
Dan.
BillSpradlin
09-21-2004, 08:14 PM
I've had this issue before and it has to do with the lights being corrupted. Deleting your old lights and re-setting them up should fix it.
Dan Wade
09-21-2004, 09:03 PM
Tried that, but still having same problems. Very odd. Thanks for the tip though.

Dan.
BillSpradlin
09-21-2004, 09:34 PM
Can you post a screen shot of the problem?
Dan Wade
09-21-2004, 10:09 PM
here is a render.
BillSpradlin
09-21-2004, 10:12 PM
Have you tried exporting your geometry to a new scene and set up new lights?
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