How to hide lights so that only the effect of the lights shows up in the renders

rbaker1956

Hey, anyone know if it's possible to hide a light source in a render, but not the effect of the light source. I've noticed that if I either place a light to close to the subject or in front where a mirror can reflect it, I get these huge white triangles in my renders. I want to be able to light the sublect but not see the light source in the render. Is that possible and how?

PS- Where do I find the " revert to last saved" command?

Richard Haseltine

Iray? The onl;y way to do this so that it affects reflections is to use an emitter - a prop, usually a primitive plane or the like, set to emit light  - and to make the Cutout Opacity value really small but not zero. Of course that will also make the light look flatter as you won't get any reflected highlights at all.

There isn't a Revert command, sadly (you coudl always put in a feature request https://www.daz3d.com/help/help-contact-us), for now you would need to reload th scene and be really careful not to agree to saving the current version.