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Basic Maya lights for Arnold

Basic Maya lights for Arnold - Maya Tutorial

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Basic Maya lights for Arnold

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- [Instructor] Rendering is the calculation of how light moves through the scene. So let's add some basic lights to our scene and start rendering. Now, in this case, I have this scene and if you at look at the outline, you can see, all we have is the geometry and we have no lights in the scene. So if I were to do say a lighting use all lights will pretty much get black. So I'm going to go back to default lighting and let's go ahead and create a basic light. Now we can do this in one of two ways. We do have Arnold lights here. I'll get to these in just a second, but we also have under the create menu, just some basic lights. So things such as an ambient light, point light, spotlight and so on. We can also find them here on the rendering shelf. You'll see we have some of our basic lights so I'm going to select a spotlight and let's go ahead and create that. Now that brings it into the scene. And in this case, it…

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