Fluorescent Lights - Tubing How-To?

[jujubee]

Does anyone know how to create illuminating Flourescent light tubes or do you have to fake it?

[percydaman]

are you referring to bare flourescent bulbs or inside a box? Ive done both.

[jujubee]

Long bare flourescent tubing.

[percydaman]

just make a cylinder and put a vray light material on it. or use egz light material. or just slap on a self illuminated max material on it and give it a mtl wrapper and make it emit GI.

[cpnichols]

Anyone have any success with the Vray light material? Have not... Come someone post an image with an example and some settings?

[jujubee]

Hmm. Thanks for the wonderful tips. Will give it a shot later!

[timmatron]

Anyone have any success with the Vray light material? Have not... Come someone post an image with an example and some settings?

I'm not sure what you mean by settings, because the light material pretty much doesn't have any settings other than the multiplier.

This was a test I started for comparing to a Maxwell render found at cgarchitect.com. Its not exactly the same scene, but I was just playing. In this one, the box has the light material with a multiplier of 15. This one took about 33 using about 10.5 ghz. because I was trying to completely get rid of the noise in the foreground. The test before was only 4 minutes and the results were very similar.

I haven't use the light material in any real projects yet, but it seems easy enough & seems to work pretty good.



Let me know if you are interested in seeing any of the settings I used for this one - nothing fancy to it really.

[pengo]

http://www.3dcenter.ru/forum/index.p...=post&id=15247


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