Artificial Lighting trouble

[miacreed]

Hi all-
I'm new to Corona, and am having trouble with artificial lighting. I'd like to produce a warm, diffuse lighting from a lamp and am attempting to use a CoronaLight to achieve it, with no luck.
I'm attaching an image of the desired effect vs my result. There is a Disk shaped CoronaLight in my scene emitting light, but no matter what the intensity setting is, the result is always very harsh and produces a hard-edge around the light. I'd like the result to be more diffuse. Tips? Tricks? Tutorials? Thank you so much in advance!!!
Best,
Mia.

[romullus]

Can you show your Corona light settings? It could be that you have set directionality way too high.

[miacreed]

Hi, yes, sure.

I have the intensity set at 100 def, and I tried turning it down to 50 but the light never becomes diffuse. I'm attaching images.

[NicolasC]

Hello,
Never use directionality above 0.5, otherwise switch to std 3dsmax lights ;)

[TomG]

Yep this is Directionality, at 1 you are pretty much making a laser :)

[miacreed]

Yes that did it! Thanks so much!!!