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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