Omnidirectional Lighting?

[Elder Craig]

I've been looking for a guide on how to create a light source that would essentially direct light like a sphere. Sorry I don't know how to explain very well, I mean like a 360 degree light source. Like a light bulb. I was sure there was something like this in sfm but I guess im wrong. Anyways, does anyone know how to create a 360 degree light source?

[Mr. Light]

you can do it using multiple lights pointing in different directions, but as far as I'm aware its impossible to do using just one light.

[episoder]

the cheap version is to use 2 spot lamps facing each other and having an angle of 179.99 / 180 degrees. this is good enough for lamps above characters. or situations where you can hide the intersection of the lamp's shadow maps. you can in theory have 4 of those in a scene. the shadow map resolution limits this in terms of shadow quality too tho.

the more expensive version is to use 6 lamps arranged like a cube with 90 degree lamps. you can only have 1 of those in a scene and have 2 spot lamps or a cheap "bulb" spare.

[ZergSquad]

google ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty7hsi7Bw3U

[Elder Craig]

Originally posted by ZergSquad:

google ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty7hsi7Bw3U

I have seen this video but im more looking for a 6 lights version of this