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# 91 17-05-2007 , 09:50 PM

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wow ofcourse i want it user added image

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# 92 17-05-2007 , 10:45 PM

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Mirek probobly has a better solution looking at his shading networks, but i will say it nonetheless:p :
Give the color of the spotlight a yellowish tint (but still white)
increase the drop off rate(edit: use linear decay and up the intensity of the spotlight, make the penumra angle like 5 and your cone angle like 35 orso), and maybe even some lightfog.
If you want your wooden fence to look a bit more real, slide the color a bit more to grey in the color chooser.

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# 93 18-05-2007 , 04:31 PM

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mastone has some good oil there mate.., close to what I might have done. But I will do something different.

I am flat out with uni and whatnot, but it will be done within 48 hours, in the meantime you can get a piece of paper and a camera (preferably digital) and a torch, this will be to map your spot light/lamp.

shine the torch onto the paper (while the room is in darkness) and if you can do a long exposure with the camera rock solid (tripod preferably.., but you get the picture,) so you dont need a flash for the camera.., then put the image into photoshop (the image of the torch on paper from behind the paper) and invert it.

that will give us a good start. I might have one here anyway (an image like that) Im not sure of the torch (should be one here somewhere) but I might be able to do it for you and e-mail it to you if you have trouble.

anyway, get that image and the rest will be explained soon.

if you look at a torch shone on a wall you will see it looks nothing like the round light of a maya spot light, the maya spotlight looks fake; you look at the light shone on to the ground from a street light and you will see it is not a prefect light like maya, no light looks like maya, there are always caustics.., this is what the mapping is for, to give a sense of reality.

as for the fence, my advice is look at mikes free tut on texturing from maya to PS.., he uses a fence like yours as an example.., you can not go wrong following that tut.., some good oil there too.

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# 94 20-05-2007 , 02:07 PM

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couldnt get the double sided shader to work with the spot light in it.., here is a very fast version of what I was talking about.., the intensity will also control the distance to a certain degree, but this is not what I meant to do before, this is fast and something you can play with until I get some more time

introduce a spotlight and change the cone angle eo 170 degree

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# 95 20-05-2007 , 02:08 PM

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scale it to fit the light.., in my case .064 did the trick

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# 96 20-05-2007 , 02:10 PM

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if we render it with default settings at an intensity of 1 we get this

this has a small area light in it so you can see the lamp

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# 97 20-05-2007 , 02:11 PM

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map the colour with something, a image of the street, or to get a good caustic effect, do what I said with the torch but in this case I used this

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# 98 20-05-2007 , 02:14 PM

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so when I render I get something a little mre realistic than the perfectly round light

I got this, same default settings/

not as sophisticated as i wanted to show you but short on time and i promised 48 hours.., but this should give you some ideas

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# 99 20-05-2007 , 02:18 PM

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put the wrong jpeg and it will not change the image?? try again

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# 100 20-05-2007 , 02:20 PM

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so you can see how much mapping your spotlight can change the scene.., when i get time I'll show you what is significant about spotlights.., because actually, you can map any light like this but a spot id the only one with 'drop off' in the AE.., and thats something you can play with user added image

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# 101 29-05-2007 , 07:42 PM

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I was away for about a week ... so many tests. Soon i will post some progress 10x for the tutorial mirek user added image

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# 102 31-05-2007 , 05:12 PM

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sorry its not what i promised, I have been overwhelmed by uni. I haven't had a chance to spend any time on my project.

the break starts soon and we will be in business then my friend user added image

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