Whether Sun or Skylight are off or on any complementary light source does not light my object and there is always a hot spot on the object. I am wondering what and why change something that worked well in R7?

Spotlight is broken and on my shortlist to get fixed: RH-75736 Spotlight not working

OK, thank you. Envoyé de mon iPhone

Hello Nathan, I realized that none f the lighting possibilities I tried, point of light and rectangular light, don’t work either.

Spotlight produces no light when Raytraced, version 8.2.23346.13001. So I put a linear light inside of a can. This worked. Spotlights do work in a model created with an earlier version 8.

Works just fine in an internal 8.4 build [image]

Per my comment above, spotlights work fine in simple models when Raytraced. However, in a more complicated model, rays from spotlights “appear” only after the first bounce. So they light things indirectly, but not directly. An implication is that spotlight success appears to be model-dependent (floa…

If you can share a model where this is the case please do so. If it is too large to upload to the forum you can use Rhino - Upload to Support to upload. The link here goes to the form with my email address prefilled. I will get a notification when the upload has completed. Here my San Miguel conver…

Spotlight in R8 Beta does not light the surface

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)

dan (Dan) October 12, 2023, 10:50pm 5

RH-75736 is fixed in the latest BETA

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