Desk Lamp shadows.

Kligan

Hello!

I am wondering, is it possible to create a "half shadow" for a desk lamp?

Here's what I mean:


I have the mesh in two parts - the cover with faked glow via material (using bump offset and fresnel) with shadows on; the base of the lamp with lightbulb with shadows off.

The issue is, the cover is blocking the light fully, thus creating 100% shadow. Which is not what supposed to happen with a lamp like this. The cover should pass through some light.
How could I achieve this?

Fabi_G

Could disable shadow casting for the lampshade and use a Light Function with the light.

Kligan

Fabi_G said:

Could disable shadow casting for the lampshade and use a Light Function with the light.

Thanks for the idea. I didn't work much with light function before, so I forgot about it  

After couple of minutes of tweaking, I got the desired effect: