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kami
 Post subject: •FAQ• lamp shade
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:44 pm 

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hi everybody
I got a room full of ceiling lights with textile lamp shades. the easiest way is to make the shade itself shine, but the result is not very convincing.
I fear that if I create a correct material (maybe even with sss) it would create a lot of noise! Because basically the whole room is lit through a material.
Does anybody have any experience with this?
thanks a lot!
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kami
 Post subject: Re: lamp shade
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:48 pm 

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I'm speaking of an effect like this.
there don't has to be much structure on the material but not a flat emitting surface.
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Bubbaloo
 Post subject: Re: lamp shade
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:46 pm 
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I have done it before, but the lamps were not the main form of lighting in the room. I used an emitter texture and multilight. I think you're right about using SSS or thinSSS for the main lighting in the room. It would be very difficult to clean up. Maybe you could use SSS, but fake some extra lighting.

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tom
 Post subject: Re: lamp shade
PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:30 am 
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Here's my trick for building HDR emission textures quickly ;) (~23 MB Flash Video)



DOWNLOAD: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/5/30/ ... shade1.swf

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zdeno
 Post subject: Re: lamp shade
PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:15 am 

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just great tip

thx Tom
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gadzooks
 Post subject: Re: •FAQ• lamp shade
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:44 pm 
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Tom could you please post this to the think site? As this was extremely helpful! And thanks for showing us that.:)

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