Cec, you are absolutely right, and prove it often, that it is possible to work miracles with lights (and transparency) in terms of rendering. Alas, my favourite computer is pretty slow (but tiny, fanless and absolutely silent) and I am not very patient. Still, I manage to create renderings that are good enough for my purposes. But what I have tried to do, but have yet to manage, was making a lampshade that would let through a soft glow coloured by the lamp shade (and normal light under). After having tried different combinations of
- transparency in the .mtl file,
- transparent, combined and semi-transparent .png/.gif textures,
- and a few other things,
the result always came out - well - underwhelming.
For a short period during the 4.2 beta-testing the colour dialogue looked like this.
This, would be nice to see operational (was there something with Java in Linux?).
Ah yes, and I just spotted Miker777's comment.
tut tut cec wouldn't catch me doing something like that
That's fine, I can live with that 
The most pleasant surprise with this whole discussion, though, is the fact that this thread is now appears to be in breach of Facebook community standards. Whatever else comes out of it, that counts for something...
ok
