04-13-2021, 01:33 AM
I did some testing today. The "Visibility" setting does work with "Mesh" and "Mesh Light" Object Types.
From what I have seen in my tests, the setting does NOT do anything for "Volume" Object Types. No negative impact but Volume objects still produce shadows. Maybe this feature is not supported with Volumes in YafaRay???
"Light Portal" objects do not produce shadows and it seems they never did. I played with light portals a bit more today while testing the updated plugin and I am not sure that they are even working. Maybe they never worked??? I will have to do more testing of light portals. They are supposed to focus Ambient light (HDRI) coming through windows in a room. Here is a video that describes how light portals are supposed to work in Cycles using Blender... Light Portals explained
Thanks,
oort
From what I have seen in my tests, the setting does NOT do anything for "Volume" Object Types. No negative impact but Volume objects still produce shadows. Maybe this feature is not supported with Volumes in YafaRay???
"Light Portal" objects do not produce shadows and it seems they never did. I played with light portals a bit more today while testing the updated plugin and I am not sure that they are even working. Maybe they never worked??? I will have to do more testing of light portals. They are supposed to focus Ambient light (HDRI) coming through windows in a room. Here is a video that describes how light portals are supposed to work in Cycles using Blender... Light Portals explained
Thanks,
oort