regdo nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-01-26 03:33:
> Hi to all.
> A few dumb questions about area lights.
> An area light is a single light source. It's made of several 
> sub-sources, but you can't make it "look_like" an array of bulbs, right 
> ? I mean, you can't automatically correlate the number of sources in the 
> area light and the look_like statement ?
> 
> If you want to replace an area_light (say 4x4 with color <1,1,1>) is it 
> equivalent to set a 4x4 array of individual point lights with color 
> <1,1,1>/16 ?
> 
> I have many more about radiosity and photons, but I'll wait for those ;-)
> Thanks for your help.
You can use a look_like to make an area_light "apears" like an aray. Have the
look_like use an 
object that is an aray of small spheres. It don't have to have the same number of
components or 
actual size as the area_light. The look_like have NO effect on the behaviour of the
light it is 
added to.

Alain

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