Discussion Best way to create light in a dark room?

[MaxBuzz]

I know how to adjust the luminosity of the material, install the light source, install the spotlight but these methods have their pros and cons

 

[4throck]

What's your objective ? If it's a VC you can get away with self illuminated materials.

 

[MaxBuzz]

the illuminated material works on the entire plane but I need to achieve local lighting this is handled by creating a spotlight in VesselBuilder, but it's too bright. how to dim the spotlight?

 

[gattispilot]

I didn't see spotlight in the doc.
But here is the setup. I don't see an intensity setting.

I guess the other way is to make a texture with the light effects on the texture

 

[n72.75]

Yeah, I would think, unless it needs to be dynamic--something you'll turn on and off--you're far better off baking the lighting effect/shadows into the VC textures, at least from a performance and ease of implementation standpoint.