luxus ambience question

Ademnus

in 3delight, if I want computer screens to have glowing displays, I put my image map in diffuse and ambient and up the ambient to 100%

Its not showing up in lux.

Is there a way to do this in lux? I dont see a lux ambient channel.

Herald of Fire

sgreco1970 said:

in 3delight, if I want computer screens to have glowing displays, I put my image map in diffuse and ambient and up the ambient to 100%

Its not showing up in lux.

Is there a way to do this in lux? I dont see a lux ambient channel.

Lux doesn't have an ambient channel because it deals with light using real-world physics. Essentially what an ambient surface does is emit its own light, so that it becomes more visible. If you want to reproduce this effect in Luxus you can turn the surface into a light source and have it emit light based on its texture.

This also means that VDU's will more accurately project the light onto their nearby surroundings as well, which doesn't occur with ambient values alone.

Ademnus

HeraldOfFire said:

sgreco1970 said:

in 3delight, if I want computer screens to have glowing displays, I put my image map in diffuse and ambient and up the ambient to 100%

Its not showing up in lux.

Is there a way to do this in lux? I dont see a lux ambient channel.

Lux doesn't have an ambient channel because it deals with light using real-world physics. Essentially what an ambient surface does is emit its own light, so that it becomes more visible. If you want to reproduce this effect in Luxus you can turn the surface into a light source and have it emit light based on its texture.

This also means that VDU's will more accurately project the light onto their nearby surroundings as well, which doesn't occur with ambient values alone.

thanks! That works very very nicely