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Hi Octane Renderes,

I was trying to render a table lamp but I couldn't get the lampshade right. I try to assign the lampshade with fabric material to make it look a bit translucent so that the light can penetrate through.
However, it looks fake with the sphere glowing. Does anyone have any idea? Thanks

Do you use Pathtracing Kernel and an Alpha map for the lampshade ? If not, create an alpha map and try that. Enable Fake Shadows in the material, and alpha shadows in the Kernel.

Hi Roubal,

Thank you for your reply. I'll try it out.

Cheers

Hi Roubal,

Thanks for your guidance. The lampshade looks better now. I found the 'fake shadow' in 'specular'.
Because it is fabric so I blurred the material up all the way.

Thanks