raven opened this issue on Jun 25, 2009 · 1706 posts
pjz99 posted Mon, 03 August 2009 at 4:51 PM
Quote - i understand this. i just want to see if i can get with GI at least some lighting from props with 100% control.
Unless SM has added selective compositing control of GI and other effects (like lighting) - and since they haven't bragged about this highly useful and valuable feature, that isn't likely - then you won't have 100% control at all. You'd only do something like that if you had a very specific effect in mind, like a glowing instrument panel illuminating stuff nearby (think Star Trek control panels). Otherwise a simple light is likely to be much easier to work with (or even an array of lights) as well as quicker to render, based on experience with other GI rendering apps.