[req] Exterior lighting advice

[john2]

I want to show bollards in exterior lighting for a park I am designing. Which is the best suited vray light for showing such lightings?

Also correct me if I am wrong

Strip lights = vray rectangular lights

For lamp posts = vray spot lights/IES lights

Accent lights = IES lights

all the rectangular lights here.

How should I make such lights? Make a 2d dotted pattern in autocad and then apply emissive layers yeah?

Here in this image all the IES lights near the wooden steps

[rspierenburg]

I suppose it would depend on the bollard. You could just use a sphere light inside the bollard component, or if it was a bollard with down-lighting I would use an IES light. Some manufacturers might even list IES information for their lit bollards.

Rob

[john2]

and what about the Studio-Roosegaarde-Solar-Bike-Path-Van-Gog image? How is that made in vray? too many lights?

[andybot]

@john2 said:

and what about the Studio-Roosegaarde-Solar-Bike-Path-Van-Gog image? How is that made in vray? too many lights?

That should be pretty simple to do with an emmissive material. Once you have an image of the pattern, just stick it in an emmissive layer. Make sure anything that's not lit is pure black, or else you may end up with some undesired glow. (you could mask the emmissive layer to make sure that doesn't happen.)