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how do you make police car lights glow?

ToobisToobis Posts: 962
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So for Iray I want to make it so a police car has the red and blue lights glowing going atop of it like its on the way to a scene. How does one light them up please so it looks like the lights are on.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,948

    ...if they are their own material zones, open the Materials Tab, select both and turn the emissive channel for them "on"  After that select each one separately and apply the appropriate colour in the Emissive Colour channel.

  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,052

    https://www.daz3d.com/emergency-lights-galore

    https://www.daz3d.com/horror-and-action-lights-for-figures-and-vehicles

     

  • protosyntheticprotosynthetic Posts: 120

    Spotlights, especially if you're using anything volumetric to create the rays. Create spotlight, in the Light settings in parameters, change the light color to red or blue and narrow the spread angle to something like 30-40 degrees. Duplicate and reverse the copy 180. Create a group with the two lights, put them where you want them. Y-rotate them randomly to make it look like it's spinning. Duplicate the group and set them at whatever intervals you want. Makes for a more realistic look than using emissive shaders alone.

  • protosyntheticprotosynthetic Posts: 120
    edited August 22

    protosynthetic said:

    Spotlights, especially if you're using anything volumetric to create the rays. Create spotlight, in the Light settings in parameters, change the light color to red or blue and narrow the spread angle to something like 30-40 degrees. Duplicate and reverse the copy 180. Create a group with the two lights, put them where you want them. Y-rotate them randomly to make it look like it's spinning. Duplicate the group and set them at whatever intervals you want. Makes for a more realistic look than using emissive shaders alone.

    Here's kind of a rough-draft representation

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    lights02.jpg
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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 40,948
    edited August 23

    Fauvist said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/emergency-lights-galore

    https://www.daz3d.com/horror-and-action-lights-for-figures-and-vehicles

     

    ...I have both, very usetul for so many different types of scenes

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • deepred6502deepred6502 Posts: 312

    You may also want to enable the Bloom settings in the Rendering options.

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