Problems with lights

[trcsilva]

Hi there,

 

my question is about lights with the Maxwell render... does it have some special light I need to use?

 

I can explain: I am using a photometric IES sun to light my scene. However, since inside my model is too dark, I tried to put some standard omni lights (or other photometric lights) inside it, but maxwell does NOT use these new lights when calculating the scene illumination...

 

Anything I might be doing wrong?

 

Thx,

 

Tiago

[Fran]

Hi Tiago,

 

Maxwell doesn't use any of the Max light objects or the standard Max sun/sky system. To create a light, assign an emitter material to a low-poly object such as a plane, a sphere or a box that will represent your luminaire. There are emitter material presets you can use to get started. Also, Maxwell has its own sun/sky system.

[trcsilva]

Thanks a lot. I didn't know that.