odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 05 November 2009 at 3:06 PM
Go into the cover material. Find the Glossy node and set Ks=0 on that node - this turns it off.
Go find a photo of a bright window on a dark background. I found this one by Googling for "bright window". Mount it on a one-sided square. Scale the square big. Connect the image to the Diffuse_Color and also the Alternate_Diffuse in the square's material. Set the Diffuse_Value = 0. If you want the photo to be brighter, you can use additional nodes to alter its appearance. I anti-gamma corrected mine and then ran it through an HSV node with Value=2.5 making it really bright in the bright parts, and really dark in the dark parts.
Add a spotlight. Position the photo square centered on the spotlight. Then parent the square to the light. Now you can move the spotlight around and the photo will move with it all the time. The reflections will match the lighting and be much more realistic.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)