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Visable Lights In 5.2 About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Visable Lights In 5.2 // New Users 1  |   Order by default Post by johnhoward // Sep 22, 2006, 10:51am johnhoward Total Posts: 231 Other than "lens flare" (which doesn't seem to work) I have not found any info on how to make a light visible - as, for instance, a street light in a night scene. Can someone suggest where I might find info in the manual - I have not found anything in the lighting chapter. Thanks as always. John Howard Post by Bobbins // Sep 22, 2006, 11:37am Bobbins Total Posts: 506 We always used to put the light inside a piece of geometry - a low poly sphere works well - then make the geometry non-shadow casting. This has the added benefit that you can assign a high luminance shader to the geometry and change how it looks too. Will that work for you? Post by Emmanuel // Sep 22, 2006, 9:32pm Emmanuel Total Posts: 439 Sure it works ! Lens Flare effect is easy to create in tS. I even often use it over simple pictures (I mean with no 3D), just because I find it more easy to use than Photoshop's Lens Flare ! Try this : 1- Create a local light 2- Open its light option panel and clic the Lens Flare Effect For The Light icon. 3- In the render options bar, clic the Glows and Lens Flare effects, r-clic to open the full options panel. Post by johnhoward // Sep 23, 2006, 4:35am johnhoward Total Posts: 231 Thanks to both of you. For this project, Bobbin's suggestion to use a shadowless object with high luminence worked perfectly. I was even able to tint its color a bit to match the color of the light output. Post by spacekdet // Sep 23, 2006, 7:48am spacekdet Total Posts: 1360 You should be able to preview and adjust the glows/ lens flares/ depth of field/ tone mapping in the Post Process Editor. This handy tool gives you a small rendered preview of the currently selected view where you can see the results of the current post-process settings and adjust them to your liking. It's been a while since I ran tS5, but I *think you get the PPE to open by right-clicking on the post-process icon in the rendering options toolbar. EDIT: It's also possible in later versions (and possibly in 5.x point releases) to render what's behind the PPE rather than the entire scene- this is handy for spot checking smaller areas rather than rendering the entire scene.

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