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scotthuster

11-03-2008, 06:00 PM

I've used area lights in the past to emit photons. For whatever reason, that tab is not available now when I create an area light. I just have: Area Light Attributes, Light Effects, Shadows, Object Display, Node Behavior, Extra Attributes. My other lights like spotlight have a "mental ray" tab. And I do have "mayatomr" activated in my plug-ins. Where did my mental ray tab go for my area light? I'm running Maya 7

djx

11-04-2008, 02:05 AM

Are you sure that you used an actual area light when you did it before? I think that in maya 7 you have to use a spotlight and convert it to an area light in the mentalray tab of its attributes. (Its been a while though, so I may be remembering this wrong)

-- David

scotthuster

11-04-2008, 06:14 AM

Hey David, you could be right. I do know how to do that too, but I could have sworn there was a straight up way to do it with just an area light

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