XSI - making an object a light source?

[Atyss]

Turn on Final Gathering. Put Constant shaders on objects you want as light source, and change their color to change the light intensity they emit.


Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[alphatron]

In the mray 3.1 documents it says it supports geometry based area lights. With it's tight integration with XSI, there must be a way to access it within the program.

[EdHarriss]

Originally posted by alphatron
In the mray 3.1 documents it says it supports geometry based area lights. With it's tight integration with XSI, there must be a way to access it within the program.

At the moment you can only do that by hacking the MI file. However, the "FG" solution that Bernard mentioned works pretty well. (See atached pic)

http://www.edharriss.com/images/shaped_light.jpg

[steverage]

Ed once again ur the man!! The original post was by one of my uni mates and I told him you'd sort him out!

Cheers Ed...

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