Negitive lights act like black holes my ASS!

Okay, so now i'm getting deeper into the lighting now that I'm mostly happy with the geometry. So far I've found that spotlights are like the Swiss army knife of lighting. they can do freaking everything! I have also run into my first hurdle. I'm trying to make the areas in the wall indents darker but some of the spotlight light gets in there. so i figure " OH! perfect time to try out using negative lights. They suck light into them."... yeah... NO! after rendering like 20 times i finally figured out they don't suck in like they REVERSE light! So areas that have light on them get dark and areas that don't get lighter. Negitive lights are still helpful but this puts a cramp in my plands a bit. I may wish to not use a negitive volume light but an area light instead. Hmm... a little tricky.

OH! ad I'm lighting things a little to dark. I had to seriously crunch the levels on these images for them to show up proper.

Lastly... I rediscovered Maya Vector render! I just did a render of it for shits a nd giggles.