atmospherevolume and mesh light

[Anonymous]

Experiencing either a bug or approaching this like an idiot, but problem is..... When i render a mesh light with atmosphere volume on. There is always a black hole at the pivot of the geometry. Now i should mention that my single mesh light is in fact multiple islands of geo combined.

but any configurations of a mesh light from multiple geo with a will create a black hole in the atmosphere. I guess it's bad practice, but I have scattered points from houdini that I'm trying to illuminate (into the environment) from procedurally without insance render times..

The docs say nothing about mesh light & atmosphere volume limitations

Thanks in advance!

[Stephen.Blair]

Could you post a screenshot, or maybe an ASS file?

I did a quick test (the red spheres are one mesh light), and with or without that area light I didn't see a black hole (and I did have a skydome light too at one point, so not everything was black).

[Anonymous]

Hey Stephen thanks for the quick reply. Attached is example of effect with screen grab of scene. You can recreate it quite simply with a mesh light on 3 poly spheres combined and then boost density in the envvol. I'm sure there is something I'm missing...

Thanks