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LW Help: Visible Lights

    13-Oct-93 23:54:09
Fm: Anthony Ramirez 70275,1027
To: Mark Danner 70731,1162
>I would like to setup a light that is visible in the rendering. (I'm >still using LW 2.0…) As far as I know, to make the light visible you need to have a surface like a sphere around the light and apply the necesary surface features to make it look like a light. No need to ray-trace. Try adding a shpere in modeler and exporting it into the Layout then change the surface color to 255,255,255 and set smoothing ON and set edge transparency to transparent. Make sure you place the light inside the sphere. This will give you a simple glowing white light. LW 3.0 makes this VERY easy as you can just set the Lens Flare feature to do what you want.