Illuminated Sign

[Anonymous]

Has anyone been able to create a typical business box sign that would be illuminated at night.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Here's the trick with 2 different JPGs, one for color and one for illumination

[Eduardo Rolon]

Don't forget to use " Match internal to C4D" and to turn Illuminating Surfaces on and in this case it is set to 200

[Eduardo Rolon]

With the same JPG on both color and Luminance

[Eduardo Rolon]

and painting the white area yellow

[Eduardo Rolon]

For the JPG make sure it has the same proportion as the Morph.

In this case the Morph is 16'-0" by 4'-0" so the JPGs are 8" by 2" at 72 DPI this will ensure that you don't slow down the file by having huge images in the Library.

Karl, render time should be a fraction of using Volumetric lights in this samb=ple it was rendering in 8 secs a 600x800 image.

[Anonymous]

Not sure I am even in the right place in terms of windows for this. I have .jpgs stored in a folder called Logos but that does not appear in the Library window. I have no issues getting the surface selected but I do not seem to be able to find the spot where you map to the .jpg and does that .jpg have to be in the Librart before starting this process.

Including a view of my entire desktop

[Eduardo Rolon]

Open Options-> Element Attributes->Surfaces
and select New

On Color or Luminance Select Image as the type

[Eduardo Rolon]

Click on the "Sub Setting" icon

[Eduardo Rolon]

Click on the ellipsis icon

[Eduardo Rolon]

Click on "Load Other Picture"
Select "From File Dialogue"
then go look for the JPG were you saved it or have it stored.

Repeat for the other channel