Ansel.Artful wrote -

Thanks, Doc.  I found them, and loaded the softbox into a scene, Then went into Reality, and sure enough, Reality seemed to recognize it as a light.  So I cranked the output up to 2000 Watts as I usually do with Reality meshes, but when I ran a render nothing showed (all black).

So I stuck one of Paolo's softboxes in at 2000W and it rendered fine.  What am I doing wrong, shouldn't John's softbox work about the same as Paolo's? 

Just spotted your post, the sets I make are props, they are not really meant to be light sources, they are just bits and bobs you'd use in a scene.

I formated my PC recently and have only installed the basics at the moment, but if I remember rightly you have to set the difuser material to mat translucent so the light can shine through it, the same way you would set a lampshade.

Lampshades, that gives me an excuse to show a lamp I did the other day. Not a freebie or for sale, this is just for my on-line buddies.