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# 1 04-05-2003 , 12:06 AM

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I made a lamp post and duplicated it as an instance. The geometry renders but not the light. This is because???

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# 2 05-05-2003 , 04:43 PM

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Need a bit more info methinks or a scene file to look at.

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# 3 05-05-2003 , 05:32 PM

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A limitation of Maya's Instancing command, is that "instanced lights have no effect". (per the docs)

To overcome this, (per the docs suggestion:

Avoid instancing lights. This is particularly important for shadow depth maps and light fog.

Workaround:

Copy the lights instead of instancing. For light fog, make sure that light fog is duplicated independently of the light because when you duplicate a light, its light fog is not duplicated with it.

Workaround:

Rotate the spot light slightly.

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# 4 05-05-2003 , 05:36 PM

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Ah Rage to the rescue! I should've checked the docs before posting a quick response...ewps! user added image

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# 5 05-05-2003 , 11:16 PM

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No prob Nitro!

Because the docs are SO damn UNusable, it took me about 20 minutes to find what I was looking for in them..

I almost gave up then I found it buried in there...

The answers are there, but I WISH they would EXPAND with more tutorials/how-to's etc.

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