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Chaos Corona for Cinema 4D => [C4D] General Discussion => Topic started by: jojorender on 2021-05-17, 17:26:19

Title: Instanced ies lights not rendering
Post by: jojorender on 2021-05-17, 17:26:19
MacOS / R18/ Version: 7.0 daily Dec 31 2020
Are instanced ies lights supported in corona?
The ies (or a regular corona light) renders in the reference object but not in the instances.
How do you set this up to work correctly?
Title: Re: Instanced ies lights not rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2021-05-18, 10:43:08
Hi there,

Seems to be working here for me. Perhaps it's the IES profile that isn't playing nice? Have you tried others?

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=33247.0;attach=147928;image)
Title: Re: Instanced ies lights not rendering
Post by: BigAl3D on 2021-05-18, 19:31:00
@Jojorender Curious if you're using a Mograph Cloner set to Render Instances or Multi-Instances? I have had some weird behaviors in Cloners when using lights. I was setting up a test with Mograph and got funky results any time I changed settings, mostly with either the IR or the Interactive Viewport. I was going to see if the final render matched the funkiness, but it locked up and crashed.

For whatever reason, C4D hasn't been generating a proper crash report or scene file otherwise I'd post it.
Title: Re: Instanced ies lights not rendering
Post by: jojorender on 2021-05-20, 21:06:05
Sorry for the late response... deadlines.
I got the ies to render by turning off "render instance" in the instance object.
Didn't make that clear that I'm using "RENDER instances".

No multi-instance for me, still on R18.

Thanks all.
Title: Re: Instanced ies lights not rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2021-05-21, 10:59:37
Hi, glad to hear you got it sorted. :)