Forum: Carrara


Subject: lighting within a tube (glowing?)

spinners opened this issue on Jan 14, 2005 ยท 3 posts


hdaggers posted Mon, 17 January 2005 at 10:25 AM

Oh your tube is a ring (or torus), not like a flourescent tube.... Use a SHAPE LIGHT set to "ring" and centered to your torus. You will need to tilt the shapelight until it aligns correctly, and adjust distance and falloff. Add a little to the GLOW channel of your ring/tube's shader so it will appear to be emitting the light. Pretty!