Originally posted by THX1138
Is this what you are trying to get your laptop screen to do?

This is just an example pic made to show illumination.

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Yeah. i put a light infront of it but it didn't look right. How do ya do that?:p

Load your texture image in the Color and Incandesence channels of your shader material. Create a area light and scale it to fit your laptop screen. Set it's decay rate to Linear and increase the area light intensity to 3000 or so. It's a pretty easy process. Best of Luck.

Well i tried. I think this looks alright. I think i'm gonna finish up with the modeling and work more on the texturing and lighting.

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Just wondering, does anyone know of a tutorial that will show me how to light up my scene better. I have tried about 4 HDRI's but i can't get it to look realistick. Any help would be good

Ta-da... I worked it out all by myself. I think it looks quite good.:p
All thats left to do is perfect it some more. Any comments and suggestions would be helpfull

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The back

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nice man, good job here, well done

Are you using ray traced shadows?

get those 'perfections' done and get it into the finals

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Yeah, i am using Raytraced shadows and the lighting was done with Final Gather.

I have changed the couloring of the plasyic to more of a blue coulor. Heres a quick render

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the proportions seem off to me, like it's too skinny or something. Looking good!

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I think ive fixed up the proportions a bit better. All i did was scale it on it's X axis.

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A close up of the top

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I was working on this a little bit today (I have heaps of time on my hands). I forgot what i changed

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