# Problem with intense light beneath bottle

**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/problem-with-intense-light-beneath-bottle/46508
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mental-ray
**Created:** [March 2, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/problem-with-intense-light-beneath-bottle/46508 "2004-03-02T17:59:23Z")
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### Author: ![obosha](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ac91a4/32.png) [@obosha](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/obosha)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/problem-with-intense-light-beneath-bottle/46508/1 "2004-03-02T17:59:23Z")

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i am having a problem with light being real intense beneath a glasslike bottle i modeled, but anywhere else in the scene the light is subtle and soft. i am using simply caustics (mentalRay) and no globalillum, or final render. i have one spotlight in the scene. but my bottle just glows, and shines like crazy at its base, but this lessens tremendously if i lift the bottle from the surface. its like there is some kind of intensity increase that happens when the two come near each other.....why? my floor is a simple blinn that has no reflectivity, and whose diffuse and ambient are also low. everywhere else but under my bottle the light is subtle and soft.