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jamina1

11-25-2006, 05:07 AM

I have an animation that I want to make for a class that I'm in. Lighting the scene requires reflections from various flourescent light bulbs. The scene is a pool table, so I need the balls to reflect the table lights above and around the table itself. How do you create "light bars" in Maya 8?

Baothebuff

11-25-2006, 05:34 AM

There's not actually a "light" that you can use but what you can do is make a tube model and apply a material with incandesance turned up and it will be "bright" and will show up in the reflections.

DJSmackMackey

11-27-2006, 04:44 PM

Or, you could use an area light and uncheck emit diffuse, so it only shows up in specularity. then just scale to the right size of the light bulbs you want.

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