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Adding light effects

Adding light effects - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: ArchViz Detailing Techniques

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Adding light effects

- [Instructor] Right now, we're ready to move on to add some light effects to the scene here. As you can see, I have my beauty pass open. This is a good practice, as well, because we can go back and forth with the original render and the final result that we have. That way, we can identify if we went too far. You should always pay attention to that because when we're working in post-production, it's really easy to get lost and go too far with the effects that you're adding, so having the original side by side will help you make sure that you're not making anything that is too strong. What we're going to add now is just a few light effects, so people like to add bloom to the architectural render because it looks more appealing and there's a number of ways of doing that. The way that I like to is that I just create a layer and paint the bloom effect on top of it, so I'm just going to call this layer bloom and then we…

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