I used to be on this forum a while ago be for it moved. Looks like we have been making great progress! Love Rhino for Mac!
So here is my question. Say I model a lightbulb, and assign it a material. Can I make that material emit light? if so how? I seem to remember on the the Windows side I used to be able to do that?
Also if it is possible what setting makes its so I can render it to light up and still see the rest of my model?
In short, you’d need Indirect Illumination or GI in the renderer to produce this effect and a non-biased engine would be the most realistic. Rhino Render doesn’t have GI and is not a non-biased renderer but you can fake the effect like this… Fake_Bulb.3dm (61.3 KB)
The bulb material has a non black emission color in the advanced settings for it in the material editor. Then there is a rectangular light just below the bulb object.
