A suggestion.  I have found the resulting light from object based lights in the IDL settings to be more effective in my renders than the traditional light set ups.  Now there is one problem ... I may not want the actual light to be visible and of course that is contrary to the purpose of the object based light in the first place.  I would like to see the effects of the object based light be an option coming from the traditional lights ... say in the preference panel.  then the effect would be there with the versatility of the original lights.

Boni

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