HElp ! this image is part of a larger scene,,,,(or at least the bit in the main view is ),.,,, any way , i want two spot lights on the car , one from each side at the top, they are both spot lights , walls/floor/celling/ pedistall on which the car is are all chrome .,,, problem is the lights kinda cancelle each other out and dont project any light , as you can see only a tiny bit on the bonnet, sooo,, how can i get around this ?????? Thank you for you're time Nick (p.s. soz for bad speeling and grammer)

Turn the sun down. Set it so more light comes from the light than from the sun then you can see what you're doing. Check the fall off too or the whole scene will be lit with just your lights. Shadows, turn them down. Who lives in a world of 100% shadows? It's the default in Vue.The way your lights are sitting your going to have shadow problems. You probibly might have to add two more lower to light the side of the car just for effect. Do all that then if there cancelling each other out there is a setting for that too.I can't remember what it's called. Oh it's called negative lights D'oh, page 32 of the book.

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What Pete said. Generally, if the spotlights are only meant to provide more speculars to the car, get them closer to the object and crank up Power. Also, what spotlight settings did you use? How high is Falloff? Try using quadratic spotlights, too. I would change the relative positions of the two lights, too--cancellation is mainly due to symmetry, and if you look heads-on on the car, having two lights completely symmetrically, the car will be lit pretty flat. I don't want to sound too much like a salesman, but check out my lighting tut for some more information on highlights and lighting scenes with spotlights. Especially page 4, "lighting the glasses" might come in handy. -Sascha.rb