northeaster opened this issue on Dec 06, 2005 ยท 4 posts
northeaster posted Tue, 06 December 2005 at 9:11 PM
Any ideas on how to mimic the lights on an XMas tree?
They need to be colored, variously and not light up other far off objects.
I've been working on a scene that includes a XmasTree.
I wanted to mimic that of the actual lights on the tree.
The tree I used, available here in the market place, is "Trim a Tree" It includes lights but I'm thinking that they are reflection based. My scene is inside, at night with the lights off and I'ld rather not add any infinite light.
Anyway in my quest to create the lights I came up with, or so I thought, was a great Idea.
I created a trans map for the bulbs, the nonlight type we hang on our tree's.
I then added a "point" type light & moved it to inside the bulb.
Guess what?
It didn't work.
I have a workaround that involves putting my light against the bulbs and haveing it's glare act as the bulb. I guess I'm happy with this.
I recently downloaded from the free area a bulb that in the owners pics show exactly what I want to do but the bulb couldn't be reduced enough to look correctly so I didn't go further with it. I should but am confident if my maps didn't work neither will his.
Any Ideas????
Many Many Thanks!
Scott