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Creating an Arnold spot light

Creating an Arnold spot light - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Creating an Arnold spot light

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- [Instructor] A spotlight sends light out in a conical, or cone-shaped, pattern. It's a very versatile type of light, and especially in Arnold. And we can use it achieve many different effects. Today we'll use a spotlight to produce the effect of these downlights, recessed into the ceiling. Let's create a spotlight. Go the Create panel, Lights. From the pull down list choose Arnold, click Arnold Light, and change the light Shape Type over to Spot. We don't want a target, so leave Targeted off. And then go over to the top viewport, and click in one of these circles. Those correspond to these recessed areas in the ceiling. Let's just click there. Right-click to exit object creation. With the light still selected, go to the Modify panel, and rename it spot 001. Let's position it in the ceiling. With it still selected, go to the Move tool, and over in the left view, we can right-click in that view, so we don't lose our…

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