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dell
03-28-2007, 02:25 PM
Hi All







I'm having a few problems creating a pattern, which is being created by some lights I have taken a picture of. Due to the shape/intensity of the light, it creates a star shape pattern on the ceiling.



I'm not using any fancy GI or Final Gather etc, just standard lights within 3ds max.



I'm also having problems creating the reflections from the lights on to the walls, If I create a raytrace material it will not give the same effect, "which is occurring within the picture", i.e. nice blown out light.

Thanks in adv



http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6655/photowm1.th.jpg (http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photowm1.jpg)

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6161/lightingvv5.th.jpg (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lightingvv5.jpg)
dell
03-28-2007, 04:13 PM
An update



I tried to create a few lights and scaled them into an elliptical shape, but it’s a hack as the real light fall off is a lot more or organic,plus the colours change and merge together from yellow to red " I suppose"



I've also included an image that shows the results of using raytrace, while having glow activated.


Cheers

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8602/lightfalloffqs7.th.jpg (http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lightfalloffqs7.jpg)


http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2509/raytracepj7.th.jpg (http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=raytracepj7.jpg)
dell
03-29-2007, 12:24 PM
Hi All



Here's an update, I tried painting a projection map and it looked a bit fake, mainly cos I'm a poor painter; anyway I tried using standard lights again.



Thanks in adv

Any comments are welcome

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/618/lightspatternuh7.th.jpg (http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lightspatternuh7.jpg)
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