How to light object from inside?

Beginners
1

I’ve been trying many combinations of lights, halfway-transparent materials and Render Transparency settings, and I haven’t yet properly wrapped my brain around the methods for getting ‘realistic’ alpha blending in TD.

I want to simulate lighting up objects - spheres, to start - from the inside. I can place a light inside a sphere and see it light up if my camera is inside as well, but I want to see it lit from the outside. Has anyone done this?

2

Aha! One key setting seems to be setting the material for the target object to have its Front Faces Back-Lit (frontfacelit:backlit). This makes sense.

3

Ha! Thanks for working that out. That’s on my list of things to try.

Bruce

4

how do you get objects lightning up in TD ?