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PWW
09-22-2007, 03:59 PM
Hi,

I am new to this forum and have being working with MR for a little while on and off. I am really trying to understand this adds on to Viz/max and it’s a little tough on me at times.

My first question…I have set up a file to render with mental render, I have set up the custom UI to Mental render, added a daylight system to the scene and set it to MR Sun and Sky. At times when I am rendering I get this message;

“MSG 0.0 error: Shadow generator "Unknown Shadow Generator" on light "Sun02" is unsupported (mental ray only supports raytraced and shadow maps). Using raytraced shadows.”

Its not every time I render, just sometimes…. What does this mean? And where do you go to find out what the messages in the error panel means?:(

lontra
09-23-2007, 06:33 AM
From what I can tell, mr is not recognizing the type of shadow use in a light.

Make sure all of your lights are using raytrace shadows (no area shadows), and allways render from a Prespective/Camera view...

Hope this helps...

PWW
09-26-2007, 06:56 AM
I have made all lights raytrace shadows, but at time aI do render in a users window or blowup render.

Thanks for the help.

is there some place to view all of the error messages?

lontra
09-26-2007, 09:43 AM
Hummm... nice question... really don't know...

Zap... I think this one is for you... ;)

Cheers