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Correct light temperatures

Correct light temperatures - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Correct light temperatures

- [Instructor] So it's time for us to set a few pointers about lighting in our project. As you know, the project that we have right now already has its lighting set, but I still want to give you a few pointers and a few tips about light. And we're going to begin with light temperature, which is something that is really important and that people also tend to overlook quite a lot. Here are a few important tips that you can take on when it comes to temperature of your lighting in your scenes. Well, the first tip is, avoid setting the color manually. When you do that, you're not actually making anything realistic. You might have a really trained eye for it, but you're still eyeballing what should be a precise measure. If you have actual kelvin values for the actual lamps that you want to use, it's even better. But, usually, just try to choose a kelvin value instead of setting the color yourself, unless you have colored…

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