YngPhoenix opened this issue on Oct 06, 2005 ยท 20 posts
svdl posted Thu, 06 October 2005 at 2:09 PM
There is a trick with infinite lights I've often used to create some ambient lighting. It's impossible to parent an infinite light, unless you use the following procedure: - change the infinite light to a spotlight; - parent the spotlight to the figure/object you want; - move and rotate the spotlight; - then change it back to infinite. Now you have a parented infinite light. The position of the parent has no influence on the lighting, but rotating the parent results in rotating the light. I've used this workaround to parent an infinite light to the main camera and have it shine straight in the direction of the camera, which provides fake ambient lighting - less work than twiddling with the ambient settings of all individual materials... The only lights that you can really put inside objects are spot lights and point lights.
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