Maz, thanks for the tip.

I've been thinking on similar lines after I posted this question. Based on your suggestion, I've created a basic model in Sketchup. I created a box with cylinder hollowed from it. Then I tried to place the box in the existing panel.

While this concept worked in a trial ...

@ mirakels

Thank you!
I have actually for some time been thinking about writing an article about lighting in SH3D, a much more in-depth article, and a lot better illustrated, but I have grown a bit uncertain about the general interest in lighting, and I think the majority of those who are taking ...

Hello!

I want to put small recessed lights below a wooden panel. While it gets rendered almost as per requirement, I always find that the lights also show off a black circle.

I've put 10x10x10 lights with 10% power, elevated in such a way that almost half of the light comes below the panel surface ...

Thanks, Hans and Okh for quick replies.

I've been extensively experimenting with lights since last one week by changing size, intensity, placement and height of white as well as incandescent light source. Based on your inputs, I did some more experiments. My guess is that the problem arises because ...

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First of all, I thank the entire team of SH3D for this wonderful software. Being a software developer for last 10 years, I can really imagine amount of efforts taken to develop it. It's so user friendly, feature loaded and intuitive, that I could draw my entire apartment within a matter ...