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Old 09-01-2006, 03:27 PM   #1
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Ive been looking around for some way to make parts of my model give some form of light, however, i cant find any way of dooing this without adding an acual light source.

What im trying to do is to make the effect of optical fiber, does anyone have any idea of how to make this work? or any idea of where to look for tutorials?
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Old 09-01-2006, 06:03 PM   #2
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If you add luminosity to a surface and enable radiosity, then the surface will act as a light source for the rest of the scene.

Be prepared to see your render times skyrocket though...
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Old 10-01-2006, 07:31 AM   #3
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thx man, I will try this today

I tried to solve this by setting the glow intensity, however, some of the lightsources is behind a transparent surface, and it dosent look like it shine through, just thought id share
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