Photometric Lights

Kev914

Where do you find the iray lights? I only see four types of lights on the create menu and none of them say any thing about iray or photometric?

Thanks.

SpottedKitty

There aren't Iray lights, there's just lights. They should switch automatically to Iray mode when you use the Iray renderer — look at the light parameters, and you'll see a "Photometric Mode" switch. When this is on, you'll see the extra Iray parameters.

Kev914

OK. Thanks. I found a tutorial by Sickleyield and I was trying to use iray for the first titme. Plus I remember reading bits and pieces in the forum. For some reason I got the impression that there were separate lights for each render engine.

Richard Haseltine

Inititially, in the first public beta, there were separate lights - but in the second or third beta they were replaced with having a single light that showed appropriate properties for the current render engine.

Steven-V

Yes this can be very confusing. The Dreamlight tutorial used an early beta that separated them out as well and was different in a few other ways and that confused me at first also.  But they've all been merged down to one light of each basic type.