System variables to render only the light which is on?

[Anonymous]

I seem unable to view only the effect of the light I am working on because there seems to be no off setting apart from exposure and I do not understand how this works globally in renderenvironment. My changes to position and intensity do not make sense especially when I cant switch everything else off. Does anyone know the complete list of systemvariables which will kill all the lights but the one I want to render? renderuserlights, defaultlighting, etc. Typically I am trying to do something against the grain and want to minimise shadows.

Thanks in advance. M

[imadHabash]

Hi,

i suggest to use the RIBBON >> VISUALIZE tabs for that (see below image ) to see more commands and settings that could help. or either you can change your Workspace to 3D Modeling,3D Basics . 

also you can read more about lighting here. >> Click << 

Good Luck...

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Does anyone know the complete list of systemvariables which will kill

>> all the lights but the one I want to render?

You can select one of your lights ==> right click ==> select similar ... now you have all lights of the same type selected ==> in property window you can now set the status to OFF.

HTH, - alfred -

[Anonymous]

Thanks both! I have (20+ yrs) experience of rendering architectural models with the limited time resources for visualising small projects but never seem to keep up with progress. What I want now is to render an exterior, skeletal frame model to the X-ray effect but at a higher quality than screen grab and without the lines. Should be straight forward but .. If anyone knows why this may be tricky, or has a few settings for environment, sun; yes or no; material, etc. which could get close when rendering on the cloud I would be very interested. Thanks in advance. M

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> What I want now is to render an exterior, skeletal frame model to the X-ray effect

That needs just transparent materials, that's it (from my understanding of that need).

>> I have (20+ yrs) experience of rendering architectural models 

And you stay at AutoCAD? wow ... 😉

Doing that mouch rendering would have kicked to to 3DS-Max or similar products!

I know that some guys here presented great images done with AutoCAD, but 3DS-Max is so much faster and flexible in rendering.

- alfred -