Light Bleeding through Material.

[KraiggC]

I have a light fixture, attached, and the light source is bleeding though the body and washing out the wall where the light connects to the wall. Anyone know what's causing this?

[barthbradley]

Renders beautifully for me. 

What's the result at you end? Did you apply the correct materials to the lens and housing? 

[KraiggC]

The image in my original post is how it renders for me. Where the housing attached to the wall you can see a light halo. My Lens material is transparent and my housing material is opaque.

[barthbradley]

[KraiggC]

Well what the heck.. I'm rendering with VRay i wonder if that's one of the issues?

[barthbradley]

Change your settings. Your background is set to "None" I'll bet. Use "Sky". 

[barthbradley]

You mean this?...

[barthbradley]

That last one was "Realistic". This one is the same one, except Rendered via "Ray Trace"....

[barthbradley]

Come back at me Kraig; I'm in the weeds with you on this one. What's the story? 

[ToanDN]

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@KraiggC wrote:

Well what the heck.. I'm rendering with VRay i wonder if that's one of the issues?

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Can you make sure the VRay's retrace parameter under Light Cache dialog is checked?

[barthbradley]

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ToanDN wrote:  ...VRay's retrace parameter under Light Cache dialog...

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Where's that? 

[ToanDN]

VRay settings I supposed. Not Revit's.

[barthbradley]

@ToanDN: I don't know who that last post was directed at, but I'm curious to know about the V-Ray setting you referenced; "Retrace Parameter". Where's that one located? 

[ToanDN]

Do you have Vray?

[barthbradley]

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@ToanDN wrote:
Do you have Vray?

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Huh? Yes. 

[barthbradley]

...somewhere inside V-Ray "Settings" maybe?  (under the "Gear" icon) 

[ToanDN]

I will need to install vray again to find it.

[barthbradley]

Darn you @ToanDN! You're my mentor. You're suppose to know this stuff! Now I'm left to wonder. What a pisser! 

...edit: I'm editing this to change "D a m n" to "D a r n", thanks to these parochial  M.F.'s. 

[ToanDN]

Try toggle between Full Light and Adaptive Light maybe.  The one I mentioned earlier is a setting from VRay for Max hehe.

[barthbradley]

You're Right!!! That is 3-D Max!