Best way for cove lighting ?

[rikou]

Hi,
I always wonder how to do cove lighting... VRayLightMtl ? VRayLightMtl with Direct Illumination ? VRaylight ?
Sometime, I really need it because it's the first light source of the scene, sometime not...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance.

[jujubee]

In the past I just use the vraylightmtl.

[Morne]

same here, designers here like to also make curved bulkheads and it takes too long to copy "short" vraylights of different lenghts along the curve and make it fit. So i also just stick to VRayLightMtl. Subdivs on 64

[Neilg]

On top of whats already posted, sometimes I use standard omni lights, and up to thousands of them with attenuation on and no shadows. I keep the real lights for the scene just underneath it all. It's much faster once it's setup.

once you get one that works it's all about using forest/multiscatter on a spline around the areas you want them.

[rikou]

Thx for all yours tips
I will have to try now