Lamps for Interior Scenes

Support Lighting and Rendering
#1

Hi, just a question that sprung to mind today. If it’s blatantly obvious, bear with me, as I’m still quite new. :wink:

For indoor scenes (well, outdoor too I suppose, but mostly indoor), if you want to model a lamp, what would give the best result for the light: Modeling the lightbulb and placing a lamp object inside it, OR; modeling the lightbulb but giving the material emit?

#2

First option for Blender render, second for Cycles.

#3

If you’re not going to see the bulb in the scene, just model an elongated sphere as an emit object to get correct lighting coming from inside the lampshade.