change color for areas without light?

[Srek]

Originally posted by Iggy
A bit of a strange question. I've got a scene with only a few spotlights illuminating objects. These fall off quickly to blackness beyond the center of the scene. Is there a way to turn the black lightless areas a different color? Say a grey blue or something, but without lighting the floor. I tried changing the shadow colors on the lights, but that didn't seem to work globally. What am I missing?

Thanks as always.

Use additional lights for this. Put them in the same psoition and direction (maybe simply as children) and use "Near Clipping " to avoid illuminating the part the original light covers.
Cheers
Srek

[Per-Anders]

another route you could take is a material with in the luminance channel a Colorizer, with an inverted gradient (the color you want things to go to black) then in that a lumas, set the color of the lumas to white, and intensity to 100%< turn off all specular etc, and away you go. this will illuminate non lit areas with the color you desire.

[azazel]

yet another option, additional light with specified color and "Ambient Illumination" turned on

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