Hi all, This is probably fairly simple, but lighting in general still gives me trouble. In this particular instance I want my lmp shade to look illuminated from within. What I often do in such a case is set the glow shader to the same thins as my color shader, be it a color, a texture map, etc. But that makes the lamp shade really really bright, too bright in this case. Any other ways to go about this? I tried putting a light source (bulb) inside the lamp shade and make it a little transparent, but that doesnt really work either. Suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance, Max

I'm not familiar with your imp lamp. 1.) turn the shadows down on your lamp so that some of the light passes through the shade. I have a lamp tutorial in the backroom which talks about how I lit it. Just some ideas. Post us an image. -Kix

-Kix

I recently did an image with a lamp and shade that is posted in my gallery. I used a light inside the lamp to provide the proper shadows and then made the shade an anything glows object. A bit of tinkering and it seems to work.