I can never create any lights!!

Support Lighting and Rendering
#1

I’ve built myself this neat spaceship mesh and its cool but I WANT lights on the side.
I’ve combed the internet for hours looking but the problem is all the tutorials are for lighting an ENTIRE object, all I want to do is light up one face of my mesh. Not the whole thing.

If I select a face and I apply the Material with the halo light effect I want to use, nothing happens. I can only create lights by adding an entire new object and then applying the material to it.

I would be ok with adding new object every time I wanted a light, except I am trying to animate and it is near darn impossible to keyframe every individual object to match the rotation of the main object.

There must be a way to either parent or make one piece of my mesh light up. But how?

Please explain step by step. And if you slap a link down for me make sure its what I need. Because I’ve spend a lot of time already finding useless tutorials.

#2

I would use a material with the emit turned way up, and vertex parent a lamp of the same color to that spot on your model. I say this because I am assuming you are using blender internal renderer and not cycles.

#3

You could try increasing the material emit value. If you then enable the Indirect Lighting option the emit will glow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0kNnHscs0

#4

Worked thanks for the emitter and youtube link! Thank you VERY much