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Subject: 
Lights on the wall
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Date: 
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:13:03 GMT
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Hi all,

I’m in the process of creating a render of a little scene. There are two walls that I want to put downlights on. I’ve created spotlights at each point, but for some reason they are not showing up.

The walls and floor are created as submodels and referenced into the main model multiple times. All the lights are in the main model. I tried removing the floor and replacing it with a normal povray floor, and the lights show up on that, but still not the wall.

see the problem?

Why would this be happening? I’ve had no problems previously with lights not showing up on submodels.

Please help.

Allister



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  Re: Lights on the wall
 
(...) I'm no expert in this field, but in POV, the surfaces is higly reflective, so if the angle of the light is too flat, no light will reach the camera at all (it'll just be reflected up and down between floor and celing. My guess is that the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)

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