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  • No light inside object

    Posted by Robert Kuipers on January 7, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    Hi!

    Inside of this glass material prism is a text. The text needs to be white, but because it’s inside the prism there’s no light and it stays dark. I tried putting a light source in the prism and I tried to illuminate the text itself with a material. Neither of those seem to work.

    Does anyone know how to fix this?

    Thank you in advance.

    Robert

    Robert Kuipers replied 7 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    January 7, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    I’m guessing you have scene wide Ambient Occlusion on (because the glass is black on the bottom where it touches the floor). Turn scene wide AO off and if you need AO on the floor just use AO in the diffuse channel of the floor’s material …or… leave scene wide AO on and add a compositing tag to the prism and uncheck ‘Seen by AO’

  • Robert Kuipers

    January 7, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    Thank you!

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