area light shines through a solid painted cover

[WoodCarver]

I am playing around with Keyshot and added light material to my tube lights behind the canopy. As you can see on the left side of the canopy it looks like light is coming though from the inside to  outside. could it be an environment light ? how do i get rid of this?

[KristofDeHulsters]

It could be multiple things:
- Your mesh on the canopy isn't closed.
- You have a roughness set to 0 and a light source in the HDRI is blasting on it at the moment.
- Your tube light is intersecting with the canopy.

The best way to help you is if you would upload the BIP files so we can have a look at what might be causing it.

[WoodCarver]

thanks I will look into it.