Lighting question.

zoophilian

Hello all another question.

 

Ive added lights to a scene, Its well lit but i like to use mirrors and reflective bits. This becomes a problem with like.. gobo lights that use lights with reflective bits and such to enhance or enlarge a light, Or focus it. Anyway. This becomes troublesome when these bits show up in the reflections in my renders! How can i have my lights visible yet not show up, Does that make sense?

Richard Haseltine

In Iray, which is mimicking reality, lights are reflected as they would be in reality. All you can do is try to place them so their reflections won't interfere - a problem for people lighting films and photographs too.

zoophilian

I see alot of lights have the options of Visible in render, Does this mean the light source will appear in a reflection? Or will hide the light entirely? I would check but iam 3 hour sinto a render with atleast another two to go.

Richard Haseltine

The Render Emitter option affects only direct views of the light, not reflections.

zoophilian

Rats >_> Okay