Hey guys,
 
This is a shot I recently completely and is the last time I will run it because the render time is simply horrendous.  It's a six engine German bomber flying at dusk, the sky covered in anti-aircraft flak.  I had two computers chewing this and it took days.  With the thousands of media objects combined with the glows and motion blurring, the computer almost came to a screeching halt.  Anyway, I wanted to have the underside of the aircraft bathed in orange light.  To attempt this I placed an area light underneath the aircraft but it left behind unwanted effects.  You can see the light source in the windscreen when all I wanted was a kind of evenly spaced orange glow.  Would MegaPov's/3.5's parallel lights accomplish this?  Any comments on the flak or city lighting?
 
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