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Changing light types

Changing light types

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Changing light types

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- [Instructor] Getting the lighting right is really crucial in a rendering. The lighting that comes in from Revit may be, decent but could use a little adjustment. There's also some things we can do to speed up our rendering and get rid of artifacts. I'll take a look at my lights. Going into a top view, pressing F3 for wire frame and panning over until I can see them. This group of four and then two over here are my surface mount cans. Then these five are my recessed fixtures I added in. The first thing I'll do is to turn them on. You may ask, why do we get light earlier in a rendering? And the trick is, that the glass on these can lights was self-illuminating, so we're actually lighting from the glass being a lit object or a lit material rather than the lights themselves. What I'll do is to pick these lights then and turn them on. Note, that any lights that come in as a part of a family from Revit, are instance, just like the rest of that family, so that turning on one or adjusting…

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