Is there any way to let a lightsource in the scene only affect certain objects? I want to put a light near an eye to make it nice and bright, but I don't want the light to affect the skin around the eye. I tried a ranged fall-off, but it doesn't work. The light always hits skin. And if it doesn't hit skin it also doesn't hit the whole eye. It's a bit like obect-specific AA, but then object-specific lighting.

Clone the eyeball, convert it to a circular parallel light, add a oval vignette type gel (black surround, white centre) and aim it at the eye specifically. This might pull off what you want. Good luck.

No, but there's 101 ways to make an object brighter, including:- - both ambience settings to the texture channel - transparency with max diffusion - internal ranged light with transparency - specularity with channel values - small amount of reflection - uncheck receive shadows etc.

Thanx. I'll see what I can do with this. I can't turn up the ambience, because it makes the eye look flat and lifeless. But the receive shadows thing and a circular parralel light might do the trick. If that doesn't work it might be easier to mask out the eye and render it seperately.

Welllll.... Might try using a spots) or parallel/directional light(s), shrink it/them down small and close and experiment on brightness/ fall off settings using plop renders till it works... and don't have to leave it/them the default white but can either use a shade of grey or any other color.