I found that the Emissive light is a great touch to interiors, but that it only shows light when you actually see the emissive subject. So let’s say I want to light up my backsplash with an emissive light from the upper cabinets, it won’t show if I don’t see the actual material.
@benjaminriendeau Which version of Enscape are you using?
Which rendering quality are you using?
Could you please share screenshots with us?
The light of emissive materials has one bounce less than artificial lights. Therefor it is not very useful for indirect lighting.
But it should be lighting the area which has a direct sight on the emissive material, nevertheless it is in you view or not.
If you place a artificial light instead of the emissive material it should bounce one time more and therefor should be brighter.
As we currently don’t support rectangular artificial lights, you can’t use them for an lighting surface.
But we’re working on the support of rectangular lights.