I bought a really great office model from http://www.iw43d.com/ and I want to make the ceiling lights realistic lights. However rather than find each light and add a light from vue eg a point light (as there are many many lights in this scene), I went to the materials editor and found a general material for all ceiling lights in the office. Is it possible to somehow make lights throughout the whole office just by changing the material. I messed around in the effects section with luminosity and glowing etc, but it didn't really seem to cast shadows or work well. I did have the cast shadows button in the effects ticked. I turned up the intensity to 1000% but that didn't help either. Love esther

Attached Link: http://www.alquier.org/linfa-net/tutorials/flexible-light-model-tutorial.cfm

I am afraid the answer is no: it is not possible in Vue to have materials that cast light. For that, you would need Carrara, Cinema4D or above. What you can do however, is create an array of soft lights and group them together to make it easier to move, duplicate and position correctly. I explained an example I made in one of my mini tutorials (check the link). The object I created has 8 shadowless soft spotlights and one point light in the middle with shadows as a fill light.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=506501&Start=1&Artist=agiel&ByArtist=Yes

I used this object in a couple of pictures already. You can check 'Mr Yamagi's garden' in my gallery as an example of what that kind of ligt can do.

Attached Link: http://www.nggalai.com/tutorials/tut_01.htm

Finally, if you want to know more, check out THE reference tutorial about lighting in Vue from nggalai.

thanks. I will check these out! Love esther