Glowing Eyes In Darkness

dash2128

I wanted to take a G8f character with touched eyes- light purple, actually- and show the beaming eyes, but...out of the darkness.  So I want don't want anything else seen  (a dark room, with eyes only.)    The best I can do, right now, is in this screenshot.  is there a quick way to accomplish this?

   

Gordig

It looks like you have another light source beside the eyes. Have you applied emissive settings to the eyes?

dash2128

Emissive settings?

You are correct, I added a light set, because therewas automatic lighting (when no light sets are in place.)

 

Gordig

Are you rendering in 3Delight or Iray? If Iray, you can go to render settings and set automatic headlamp to "never" to take care of the automatic lighting. Select your figure, go to the Surfaces pane, and select one of the eye surfaces (probaby Irises), and scroll down close to the bottom where you'll find the emission color. Change that to any color but black (white generally works best), and that will add the emissive properties. Play around with those until you get the desired effect. You can also apply the base color map to emission color.

The steps are probably more or less the same for 3Delight, but I don't know from experience.

dash2128

Thank's for replying, I can try to follow your suggestion.  I have been using 3d, because right now, I do no require a render.  I was just attempting to make it happen in the viewport.  You know, I didn't try a render, to see what it looks like.

I will play around with that, as you suggested.   After dinner (and while I'm preparing it.   )  

Thank you for your Help!  I would really like to get this effect!  Eyes, peering out of darkness!- a light purple (eyes)

 

 

dash2128

By the way, I am having a little trouble finding the automatic headlamp setting. (to turn it on or off.)

nemesis10

dash2128 said:

By the way, I am having a little trouble finding the automatic headlamp setting. (to turn it on or off.)

select the camera in scene > Parameter Tab > Headlight

dash2128

Thank you!

Using surfaces,I finally reduced the eyes to this: (screenshot).

I still cant' get the last two pieces- the eyeballs and...eyemoister strips- I don't know what else to call them- to disappear.  

I only want the iris to appear!- in the dark.

dash2128

That's pretty close!

I had to use opacity, in surfaces, and- with a black background (environments)- make as much of character as possible. to disappear.

Then I added fog, to cover the eyeballs, and (in surfaces) blacken the fog, which helped.

Close up, the outline of eyeballs can be seen, unfortunately.  But only close up.  And even that, almost passes. 

dash2128

Thanks again, everone!