can not exclude distant lights on hypervoxels

[jeremydk]

this is a scene with a spaceship and some meteors, some made with HV.

The spaceships thrusters are made with particles, a flare light (with no intensity) and a volumetric distant light.
The volumetric distant light has to have light intensity to work but it can not light up things at all.
So i exclude the light from the object and the object from the light. Double protection so to speak.
It works fine on all objects exept the voxel meteors.
I layout i can see it works on the voxelparticles so the object properties is ok. This means that the problem
lies in the voxels but where ?? any suggestions

in the first image you can see the meteors lit up from the left, same direction the thrusters a facing.

http://www.samuraifoto.com/distant01.jpg

http://www.samuraifoto.com/distant02.jpg


thanks for any help

Jeremy

[toby]

Excluding the object or the emitter that the HV is attached to should work -

[jeremydk]

Yes , it should work but it does'nt.
I discovered that it is not only distant light but all lights.

I made a test scene with a null and voxel. Please load it and check it
out. If you can work out how to exclude the voxel from light and keep the distant light
intensity on 100% i will send you a box of delicious danish chocolate :)
Im running LW8 so if anyone could test this on a higher version it
would be great.

the scene is here.

http://www.samuraifoto.com/no_off_distant.lws

[toby]

Hm, that's the same test I did and it worked. Loaded your scene and it worked right away too. Had to turn off the exclusion the see the HV. I'm using LW8.5. I'll try 7.5 and 8 later tonight.

[toby]

7.5 and 8 don't work! Can't exclude HV from lights. Well it's a free upgrade from 8 to 8.5!

[jeremydk]

thanks a lot Toby. Great help. I never got around to update to 8.5.
"if it aint broke, don't fix it". But i guess now is a good opportunity.

jeremy

[toby]

Chocolate! :dance: