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Onshape render lighting help?

MichaelPascoeMichaelPascoe Member Posts: 1,900 PRO
edited February 2022 in General
Having issues getting the lighting to apply to a face or a part. Does anyone know how to get the lighting material to emit light? @GregBrown I have moved the question to here. 

I have tried changing the environment in case this scene was too white. Anytime I get the lighting to work, it is never a glowing light, only a white color. Also tried assigning the light material to a part instead of a face.

Thanks in advanced! So excited for Onshape rendering.

Here is a link to the document:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6c4ae7073bbb41d485299a31/w/a75a42c352a4a591769b844c/e/45fdcd609bd61e6c1bb3860d



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  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,617
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    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI

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  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,617
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    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • MichaelPascoeMichaelPascoe Member Posts: 1,900 PRO
    @NeilCooke I must be doing something else wrong too. 

















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  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,617
    edited February 2022
    Try an "emitter" material instead - you'll also have to tweak that bloom threshold number. I also struggled to get diffuse light to bloom.

    EDIT: actually I can get diffuse light to work if bloom radius is 0.05 and threshold is 500000
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  • MichaelPascoeMichaelPascoe Member Posts: 1,900 PRO
    edited February 2022
    Many thanks! With the original bloom options you suggested, I got it to work by adjusting the settings for "Cool White 7000k Emitter". 






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  • andrew_kleinertandrew_kleinert Member Posts: 56 PRO
    Thanks @MichaelPascoe and @NeilCooke for this, good resource to get started with creating a light source. 

    To add to the topic ...

    I found that the "Add Emission" environment to be a little more flexible, allowing the colour to be selected.

    Assign "Add emission" environment

    Typically the material will first appear black meaning that the light source is "off" (or a low value lumens indicating that it is as good as "off")

    Under Appearance -> Global, I set the "unit for emission" to "lumens" (to be consistent with the emitter environments above)

    Set the lumens to a big value (eg: 1000, 10000, 100000) to turn the light source "on"

    The colour selector  in the Appearance -> Global dialogue is fairly self explanatory.

    As you can see below, some of the colour rendering can be a bit funky for curved surfaces + low lumens values (the part being rendered below is a singular homogenous part) - haven't figured out what's causing that but it's not holding up my work.


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