I''m not an artist and I haven''t done much with 3ds max, I''m just dabbling around in it seeing what I can do. I made this simple table with an oak wood material and when I add any kind of light to the scene, and do a quick render, the object is not shown, without the light, it is shown fine.

Sounds like a light decay/attenuation problem, look in the modify roll-out and remove the decay or chose "overshoot".

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[edited by - Herr_O on March 6, 2003 10:57:37 AM]