You are in some luck. I myself have just attempted a similar project, including light from a lamp. I added a bulb light from the lights menu and put it inside the lamp shade that I modelled. After some tweaking, I got an acceptable result, especially for a newbie to carrera. You could do the same by creating the physical light bulb and then make the glass of the bulb fully transparent or add a white color for a "soft white" bulb. Put a bulb light within the bulb and then adjust the lighting properties. The main problem I have is using the transparency settings to affect the transmission of a light through the intervening object(ie. lamp shade). This can cause some unrealistic results, like a fully transparent lamp shade that should be opaque. There should be a better way to indicate how light is transmitted through an object without using the transparency. Anyway, hope this helps. DotPainter123