Subject: Re: Lights and objects
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 02:22:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Randy R. Wall" <rrw@ecst.csuchico.edu>

> I've been trying to get lights "in" objects. I'm using a box and in the 
> Atributes requester i tell it to be a light. I want this for spotlight on a 
> car I've made. It lights up the suroundings in scanline but it doesn't give 
> any light at all in raytrace.
> 
> The object sends light out, but it is dark if you look at it from the front (
> like a black object sending light out). Strange...
> 
> Anybody care to light me up?
> 
> /Anders Lattermann

Sure, click bright in the attributes requester for the object as well as 
light. But if your looking for a beam of light to shine from the light 
let me know and I'll send a tutorial I wrote for someone on how to make a 
really cool spotlight, one which raytraces well too.

=RRW=



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