by Seekerfinder » Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:10 pm
Seekerfinder
Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:10 pm
Hi kyriakos,
What are you trying to create? Signage or a luminaire? Or something else?
Usually just creating a blackbody diffuse material on the geometry works well for me. Due to the emission and the bloom effect you typically don't get reflections so no need for a glass tube. If it's a very low level emitter it might be different (but that's more typical with old style filament lights). In any event, with glass make sure fake shadows is ON. And always check the normals - direction of faces.
This is all quite basic stuff which you probably know but you're not giving us a lot to go on.
Best,
Seeker
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