Area light newbie

[user_deleted]

hello
i am new to xsi and i amtrying to get an area light big enough as a window i tryed a light box and a normal light with area on . but i couldnt scale the size of the area light ..Do i scale the light itself?
help please.

[wurp]

Were you enabled arealights, there are also parameters to change the size of the light.

[user_deleted]

do you mean by that u v samples....
if that true how do you see in your scene how bigger they are..
thanks anyway

[atyss]

Bonjour Geeforce,

Under the samples there is a section called Area Transformation. There are scaling properties there. If you change them, you'll see the area changing accordingly in the viewports.

The samples is the "definition" of the area light. Low values result in grainy shadows, but render fast; high values result in smooth shadows, but takes much longer to render.

Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel