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Hi I'm really green at this so please bear with me. We laid off our rendering people, so now I am trying to pick up the peices. I have a model built of a somewhat complicated interior. It renders fine in final RW when I have the lighting class turned off. I used the accurate lamps as my tubes on fluorescent fixtures. When they are turned on the I have 2 problems.

1. Dark outlines of light tubes are visible even though other objects. I've built accruare can lights & parabolic fixtures. The can lights are creating a problem but the tube fluorescents are. I tried the lights as part of the above lighting symbols. Then I pulled them out of the symbol & made them part of a group with the symbol. Neither one has helped fix the problem.

2. I either get tons of hot spots on the walls and tons of glare at "correct" lighting levels or I have to set each light down to 10% - 20% of its out put, in which case it is a dim interior.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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That's what happens when you lay off people with a skilled trade that goes unappreciated until after they're gone. ;-)

Anyway, enter the grouping of the fluorescent tube... select the line light, and (I'm doing this from memory now) either uncheck "Render Geometry" from the Obj Info palette or just remove the Line Weight entirely from your Fill/Pen Tool palette.

As for the hot spots and glare, you just need to play with it... if you are turning off the Layer Lighting, and depending on the correct light fixtures to light the room realistically, then you'll need to render in Full Radiosity. Otherwise, turn the Layer Lighting back one and dim your lighting fixtures... maybe even triangulate some Spot Lights in the room to artificially create a Full Radiosity look. You can also use an HDRI or spotlight dome background to artificially create the Full Radiosity look.

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Thanks for the response.

The render geometry was already clicked off, so I don't think thats the issue. I am unable however to turn off the fill on the actual light object. There is an extrude as part of the symbol that is the actual tube - is this what I need to turn off? I guessing not.

I will run full radiosity once everything else is pretty much right to try and adjust lighting levels, but that takes all night on my system.

Any other thoughts or did I miss something. Thanks again for the help.

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