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Young3D
02-25-2009, 11:57 PM
Hello Everyone,

I'm actually working on my short movie and i'm stuck because of some missing lights.
I'm talking about the famous Mental Ray Area Light,
I search everywhere and it was impossible to find it out...

My 3ds max version is the 2009 one

Here is a Screen of my photometrics Lights ( a lot is missing ) :

(VIEW Screenshot.jpg)

I've been thinking about the problem and i think it's due to the modifications i've made (not well) to unlock MR Production Materials, as Zapp told on his blog.

Since then i have this window everytime i'm starting 3ds:

(VIEW Screenshot2.jpg)

Please help, it's really urgent

I hope somebody have a Clue,
PiXeL_MoNKeY
02-26-2009, 12:04 AM
There are no mr Arealights in the Photometric Lights. They are located in the Standard lights dropdown.

-Eric
Young3D
02-26-2009, 11:24 AM
Thanks for the quick reply Eric,

I'm Actually looking for the Free Area and the Direct Area...

I can't find any...
cboath
02-26-2009, 02:33 PM
As he said, they're in the standard section, at the bottom


mrAreaOmni and mrAreaSpot


There's not a direct area light. It'd kind of defeat the point of an a direct light - parallel shadows.
Young3D
02-26-2009, 06:37 PM
Sorry to insist but on these tuts:

http://www.mariomalagrino.com/advanced-illumination.pdf

and

http://www.mariomalagrino.com/illuminationtutorial.pdf

Mario malagrino is talking about "free area photometric light" and "photometric target area light"

Hope i'm not abusing,

Cheers

Mel
PiXeL_MoNKeY
02-27-2009, 05:20 PM
They are no longer "area photometric" they are simply "target light" and "free light" in the photometric lights. Change the Shape/Area Shadows to Rectangle.

-Eric
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