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How to illumine sign?

HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
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Having an odd problem. See the attachment. I want to illumine the monitor panel in the upper right, the red arrow is pointing at it. I tried Real Lights, that works but the texture goes away even though I did the CTRL and chose ignore. I tried the Iray Emmisive shader with same results. Now, the red strip (lower left in attachment), I used Real Lights on it and the texture stay and is lit up. I'm confused and not sure what the trick is here, especially when one thing works but another don't even when using the same exact procedure.

panel light.png
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Comments

  • SteveM17SteveM17 Posts: 987

    I would increase the ambient colour setting of the part you want to glow.

  • HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
    SteveM17 said:

    I would increase the ambient colour setting of the part you want to glow.

    I'll check that after the sale, but I'm pretty sure ambient was all the way, by default even.

  • SteveM17SteveM17 Posts: 987

    Maybe it's the colour of the ambient that needs changing? To light green or blue maybe? A lot of things have the ambient set to black.

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,484

    Try putting the texture map into the Emmissive colour channel.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Iray doesn't do Ambient only light. I have converted this set so when I can I will take a look and see what I did and report back later..

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Ok I have saved out some Iray Mats presets if you want them, just send me a PM with your email addy.

  • HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
    Szark said:

    Iray doesn't do Ambient only light. I have converted this set so when I can I will take a look and see what I did and report back later..

    So did you have fun converting it? hehe. I converted everything too, must of taken me two days with a number of hrs each day, I was very glad to get it finished, the iray conversion I mean. It took me a while though as I was really being cautious on glass and etc, so it took me some time. I wanted to highlite everything and just be done, but was scared of what some of the results would have been, again wih things such as glass and etc. Heh. I sent you a message, with my email, btw. Thanks. I'll have to investigate some of the comments as well unless it's alrady shown that they just won't work. Scorpio's reply: "Try putting the texture map into the Emmissive colour channel." is this what you meant by Iray doesn't do Ambient only light?

     

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Ambient is the old way of making something glow without emitting light, in reality this isn't possible this I still love 3DL, it is so flexible.

     

    Anyways yes I put the texture into the Emissive colour channel and also put the Ambient map in to the Light Strength channel. I have to go out in 5 mins so when I get back I will send you the mat presets

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    How did you get on HorusRa?

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