tech support!!! How do you use object as light source?
 

Hello there,

I've got a couple of fluros in my scene and they're meant to be emitting light - I have the incandescene bumped up and I'm using a point light to simulate the light flood - problem is, it's reflecting off the ceiling and looks all wrong. How do I fix this - do I use an area light or swap to a spot - its so going to ruin my existing light setup.. Grrrr...

TGG

are you rendering with mental ray???

tell the point light not to light the ceiling. Goto relationship editors and then light linking>>light centric. Select the point light on the left hand side and then make sure that the ceiling is unselected on the other side :)

that should do it

Alan

Pure MOrning! Thanks!!! Phwoar!! Power!

Just a curious mind thing but will unlinking that suface make the scene render that bit quicker? (Due to the obvious need to not do that extra calculation factor)