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Ok, I put an object with holes in it in the middle of darkness, how can I make light come out of that object? In my particular case, I want the eyes, nose, and mouth of a halloween pumpkin to light up, but it just looks dark in the render. What can I do the pumpkin, or perhaps a light inside of it, or something else, to get it to 'light up' The pumpkin, btw, is a freebie from the rdna site, linked in this post.

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Simplest way is to use the Ambient Color, if your object has a different material for the inside. Otherwise, you can always shove a spotlight or two in there. Works in P4 and Pro Pack, too.

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I just downloaded the pumpkin. It already uses the ambient-inside trick, and looks very good in P4, but doesn't work at all in P5. Here's how it looks in P4. Even using the "P4 renderer" in P5, no glow. So you'll probably have to add some nodes to the Inside material...?

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Here's the answer: Set the Ambient Value to 1.

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I believe it is possible to put a light inside an object. Then you can control everything, including color, direction, intensity, etc. Make the camera itself not visible so the actual 'camera' does not show in the shot, only the light. ::::: Opera :::::

Well the ambient to 1.0 seems to sort of work, though ti gives off no actual light (such as lighing up the floor in front of the object). Need to do major texture work on the figure still of course. :p

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you could also try to put a volumetric light in it... That way, you could see lights going out from the mouth and eyes of the pumpkin...

Try using ockham's Ashara lightball Python script ( search freestuff for 'Ashara's Lightball') to make a light ball which you could scale down to put into the pumpkin. That's what I'd do.