Gradient added to light

[chris.estuarycreative]

Hi Guys,
I want to replicate the effect of the light shown here, highlighted. It's the orange buttons, they have that nice brighter spot in the centre. I managed to make the effect with the other bottons, the central light becoming darker towards the corners, using a ramp attached to the emitter weight. But when I do the same with the orange they just go black, muddy, dull etc. Not what I hoped. i'm guessing it's because of the form, the geometry and the depth of the button right?

[lee_griggs]

That sounds like it should work. Could it be the lighting? Can you share your results? Maybe a mixture of diffuse, emission and rough specular could also work?

[chris.estuarycreative]

Hi @Lee Griggs thanks for your response, I'll run a quick render at lunchtime and post it on here. It could well be a mixture of a few factors. I have to second-guess a lot of results as I'm on a Macbook so I don't have the luxury of being able to use a brute force technique of discovering what works. As I mentioned though, I did get the gist of the flatter lights pretty easily by adding a ramp set to U coords' to give it that falloff I was after.

[hitecom8172]

This might sound dumb but you can try a spot light or a light with a focus (default Maya lights).

Cheers,

Om

[hitecom8172]

Oh I'm sorry I didn't see it was for c4d. Focus lights should work in c4d also.