How can I accomplish proper translucency for wax?

Totally cool. But, how dare you have a life outside these forums. I was going to try just that, ramped emissive.

If I may ask though, ramps. I’ve seen how to create one though how to do yoo control directionality. Example, I want to ramp from black to white upwards, but what if I want it reversed? a 1-minus to invert?

Or what about a ramp from left to right? Take the original and rotate it?

Thanks for your time Jacky!