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title: "Incandescent"
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description: "This page describes the Incandescent material of the Redshift renderer in Cinema 4D. Optimized for emissive meshes, it lights scenes through global …"
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# Incandescent

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
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> This page describes the **Incandescent material** of the Redshift renderer in **Cinema 4D**. Optimized for emissive meshes, it lights scenes through global illumination like a mesh-shaped area light — ideal for neon signs, screens and glowing surfaces.

## Overview

This material shader has been optimized for simple, 'emissive' meshes that act as Global Illumination lights. It is intended to have a similar look to an area light that has its shape defined by a mesh, the difference being that this will *only* contribute to Global Illumination, since it doesn't perform any actual direct lighting.

Incandescent shaders are also great for objects that need to appear flat at a constant color value and are completely unaffected by lights.

> **Note:** Incandescence will only give off light if Global Illumination is enabled in your scene *and* the Ray Type Intensity Multiplier for your Incandescent shader is set to a value greater than 0.