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Re: Any team using avanced lighting this year.
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Originally Posted by BuddyB309
I'm the director of our team this year and We just discovered the amazement of radiosity (I think thats how you spell it) We were wondering If any other teams out there are using it? my video must look 50 times better with it on but takes 10 times much longer to render. I've already got radiosity computed for my scene. any suggestions?
For a lot of situations, you can fake radiosity by using the "spinning light trick". The results are very similar to a genuine radiosity render, but the rendering times are a fraction of a full radiosity render. The particular link above shows how to do it in Lightwave (and it is also a really good general tutorial on area lighting), but I understand that it also works the same way in Max.

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