ies lights and photon emission

[aram]

Helloo

im a newbie

 

m having porblems with a mental ray scene, firstly, my ies lighting doesnt show in the renders

 

anway so i took them out and im just using 2 fpoint lights, and when im rendering it gets stuck at 27.3% photon emission

 

does anyone know why this maybe?

[aram]

hi brian

thanks for the reply, im attaching an image of the render without the fpoint lights, im just using a mr area spot in this render, i was going to use fpoint lights in the interior for light coming from the lamps, but the photon emission gets stuck at 27.3%

 

most materials im using are arch&design and architectural materials at their default settings

 

im using 3ds max 9 by the way

 

im using final gather on preset Draft with its default settings for that preset

[aram]

Hi Aram,

 

Have you focused the the spot on your geometry? Shooting photons

off into empty space would be a bad thing!!

 

regards

Bri

 

okay, u have lost me i dont know what u mean, ive only been using 3dsmax for a few weeks, and im not an architect

[aram]

thanks for the link, looks interesting

i understand what you mean now, but the mr area spot was turned off when i try to render the scene with 2 fpoint lights where the lamps are, this is when the photon emission gets stuck

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