(MAYA 7)Seeing the rays of the light

[CoreyArt]

How do you actually see the rays of a light your created, like for a spotlight, how do i acutally see the light itself and not just the result of ti hiting an object.(Maya 7)

[Old_Nick]

In maya this effect is called light fog, and can be applied to point, spot and volume lights.
Create a spotlight then in the attribute editor find light effects >
light fog --> click the checker box, a lightfog node is created.
in the lightfog node you can adjust the color and density attributes of the light fog.

[MoC]

Good question ther corey. I was also wondering on how would u be able to do that on 3ds max 7 :dunno:

[Old_Nick]

for Max

Create a light source (I can't remember if it works with all kind of lights)
I'm sure it works with spotlight, so create one then go:
Rendering > environment > atmosphere, click the add button, select volume light, in volume light parameters click the button Pick Light ( turns yellow) >
select the light in the viewport. that's it, render.

in volume light parameters you can adjust many values.

[CoreyArt]

Thanks old nick, but now I have another question. I have a room with many windows, how do I get my spot light to shine through all of these windows creating light beams that hit the floor?

[MoC]

Haha, corey, we've got the same problem, except mine's in terms of max.

How do u put pics straight onto posts BTW :hmm:

[CoreyArt]

Haha, corey, we've got the same problem, except mine's in terms of max.

How do u put pics straight onto posts BTW :hmm:

Yeah learning 3D is fun though. I also use Max, but at my school we use Maya. But for the image file....Hmm, I think you just go to "manage attachments" below the box you type in when making replies.

[MoC]

U learn maya at skool, must be real fun. Heck I'm still in high skool (final year) :(

Havin trouble on managing attachments, from threedy itself by the looks of it. I just wanted to show the pic from max 7 light fog user reference. That pic's a really good example.