Illuminated glass

[Penry]

Hoping one of you guys/girls can help me with this. I have a lot of coloured glass pendant lights in my scene and applying a vray sphere light to al of them is going to take forever aswell as bumbping up the render times to something rediculous. Is there a way I can get the effect of these lights being illuminated without applying a light to each one. I'm not that fussed about the lights illuminating the scene-I just need them to look as if they are lit up.

Like the new style forum by the way......groovy.

[rmejia]

Have you tried using the VRayLightMtl ?
http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150S..._light_mtl.htm

[HAWF]

I'd bet vray2sidedmtl +reflection with some light inside.

[Codi]

You could also try to use the new VRayLight Geometry mode. Attach a copy of all the pendants into a single mesh and use it as a the source object for the VRayLight, it worked pretty well for us in a recent project.