question about lighting..

[dekes1539]

I am working on a project and needed some help with lighting. When creating a light source, the light does not appear, but rather illuminates the related objects. If I want to make a car headlight, or a sphere look like it is generating light, how would I make that happen? If someone can even reccommend a good free tutorial that would also help a lot.

Thanks,

Mat

[MangledPoly]

What you are looking for is refered to many different people as different things.
In our studio we call it volumetric light.

more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_lighting

How to achieve this depends entirely on the program or game engine you are using. However, if you google volumetric light tutorial and your software it should get you some where!


-Ryan