Is there a way to make a vray light material reflect?

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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I have tried blending with a reflective coat, but no luck

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well, it should be working that way.. maybe the light mat is so bright you can’t tell any reflection?

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perhaps, but the point is for it to be bright. It is just set at 1, nothing crazy.

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of course, I see. anyway, it seems to work as expected here, light mat as base, and vray mat as reflective coating.

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if its pure white (or brighter) i dont think its possible for it to have a reflection… as reflections are additive, and you cant add anything to pure white. (within the confines of an 8 bit display of course)

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I acctually have a texture map in the color slot. Its a yellow gradient with no pure white.

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I’ve just finished a job that required something similar - blending with additive mode should work fine. Can you post the file?

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Do you mean the max file or the mat file?

I turned the light down to .8 and am now getting reflections. I want the dang thing bright though and casting light

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looks like additive mode did the trick! The reflections are fairly subtle, but it brightened up the light as well…thanks!