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Getting the most from my LEDs

Question asked by Steve Calvert on Jun 26, 2009
Latest reply on Jan 11, 2012 by Andrew Medgyesi

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New 360 user here and wanted to know how to get a more brighter light from my surface mounted LEDs. I have used 'Face' and applied bright yellow LED lights to them but my render looks like I have yellow faces. Is there a way to show these as actual LEDs.

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1-9C36HC Jun 26, 2009 4:42 PM
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Steve,

An image would help. There are, of course, different types of LED's, diffuse and clear. Sounds like you want the effects of a clear type?
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- Steve Calvert @ 1-9C36HC on Jun 26, 2009 5:53 PM
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  Hi Mark, thanks for the help. Here is a 360 Photo showing some LEDs. This is a switch on our gas pumps and I wanted to show off how the LEDs show or don't show through the polycarbonate. I think I have one of the layers the wrong material as well, it should be frosted somewhat.
  
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  - Rob Rodríguez @ Steve Calvert on Jun 26, 2009 6:11 PM
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    Hi Steve,
    
    If you're looking to make the LED's brighter you should go to your appearance palette and click the advanced tab. Then click on the geometry that has the LED material. This will bring up the LED appearance properties at the bottom of the appearance palette. If you increse your luminosity setting the LED will give off more light.
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    - Andrew Medgyesi @ Rob Rodríguez on Jan 11, 2012 11:35 AM
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      Hey Rob, I have the same problem but I've already done what you suggested. I think the issue may be that I'm confused about appearance hierarchy, as the top level of the assembly has an appearance assigned to some color or other. However, when I render the part it appears to have the correct appearance settings, I just can't get my LEDs bright and glowing! I've cranked the luminosity of the red LED appearance up to 99, and they still appear as a flat red surface! I've adjusted bloom setpoint to 65 and bloom extent to 100 just to try and get some effect to no avail! Pretty much banging my head against the wall here at this point, not sure what I'm doing wrong..any insight would be greatly appreciated
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