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Subject: Help needed with lights

simontemplar opened this issue on Sep 20, 2007 · 9 posts
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simontemplar ( ) posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 3:24 PM · edited Thu, 14 November 2024 at 11:56 PM

Hi there ^^
I am trying to render a scene which includes an unimesh figure sitting ona  desert island near a campfire. Since all there is around is the sea and the sky, no real decorum problem there... except that I don't want the yellowish light of my fire to turn my skydome yellow. How can I make it so the skydome does not react to this specific set of lights?
Thanks in advance, I am clueless here.

ockham ( ) posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 3:35 PM

If the fire is an actual light, you could make it a point light and set its
Dist Start and Dist End so that the light fades just beyond the figures...
 
If it's an ambient, I don't know!

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simontemplar ( ) posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 3:51 PM

actually they're spots. I purchased the "ultimate" fire kit from romanceworks today :-)

jonthecelt ( ) posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 4:25 PM

If spots, then you can do a similar thing - just set the distance start to a point beyond the figure, but before the skydome. To help matters, it might be worth scaling up the skydome as well to give you more room to play with. 

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simontemplar ( ) posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 4:32 PM

thanks for the tips :) I'll try that in the morning :D
These fire effects are nice, too... just a bit to fiery :p

bagginsbill ( ) posted Fri, 21 September 2007 at 10:02 AM

Sky domes give off their own light. You should not plug your sky color map into Diffuse_Color. Set DIffuse_Value = 0, Specular_Value = 0, and plug the color map straight into Alternate_Diffuse.

The sky will now have NO reaction to light of any kind. Even if you delete all your lights, it will still be there.

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simontemplar ( ) posted Fri, 21 September 2007 at 6:27 PM

Great tip, Bagginsbill, thanks a lot. That's exaclty what I was looking for. :)

melikia ( ) posted Mon, 24 September 2007 at 1:02 PM

holy chit, bagginsbill!

what a DIFFERENCE in my skydome!  thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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bagginsbill ( ) posted Mon, 24 September 2007 at 2:28 PM

That was an easy one, eh?

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