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    Exact effect of a 40 watt fluorescent light

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      rspierenburg
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      So with the model shown above, what effect would you get if you completely incased the tube in 6 rectangular lights? Sort of a Cubic light if you will.

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        andybot
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        I played around with simple rectangular lights, here are some results. You can see the light pattern is different depending on how many facets you make with the rectangular lights. It ends up with a bit of a hotspot on the ceiling using 5 planes, I actually think the 3 planes turned out better. The thing I made different from what valerostudio showed above is that I made the rectangular lights much larger than the bulb in order to get a softer more spread out effect. I have the lights set as hidden in vray.


        vray2_6d5_03.jpg


        vray2_6d_test4.jpg

        http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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          valerostudio
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          Andybot, nice work. The thing that we need to disclaim here is that nothing we are showing you is the "exact" effect of a 40w bulb. I am fairly certain this cannot be done in Vray, unless I am wrong. You can give an light a Watts setting, but I dont think this is directly related to how a real bulb works. Someone correct me if I am wrong here.

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            andybot
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            @valerostudio said:

            Andybot, nice work. The thing that we need to disclaim here is that nothing we are showing you is the "exact" effect of a 40w bulb. I am fairly certain this cannot be done in Vray, unless I am wrong. You can give an light a Watts setting, but I dont think this is directly related to how a real bulb works. Someone correct me if I am wrong here.

            Thanks!
            Correct, this is all approximate and relative. With IES files, there is actually a relationship to real values, but even then, the render engine uses an approximation (biased)

            http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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              pilou
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              There is not a tool for that in Light Up ?

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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                valerostudio
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                I have no experience with Light-Up but I think only an unbiased rendering engine will give you "real" world results.

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                  nomeradona
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                  if its using wattage then biased render cant replicate that.

                  visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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                    nomeradona
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                    andy that is cool tests.

                    visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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                      john2
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                      what is biased rendering and unbiased rendering??..and andybot. awesome effect. πŸ‘

                      Sketchup Make 2017 (64-bit), Vray 4.0 , Windows 10 – 64 bit, corei7-8750H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB

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                        valerostudio
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                        I think this article has the basic answers to this question.
                        http://galaxycityradio.com/2012/01/04/biased-vs-unbiased/

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