I'd use an opaque material with an inverted fresnel effect for the glow, you could use a mask on top of it to add in wires, overlaps, and wrinkles on top of it.
Hi guys. Hoping someone could give me some pointers on an effect I'm trying to achieve. I thought it would be quite simple but really struggling to understand why it's not. I want to create this: A paper lampshade where the light is visible through the material, and falls off as shown in the picture. Bright in the centre…