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Creating light groups

Creating light groups

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Creating light groups

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- [Instructor] For full control over the lighting in post-production, we can render out light groups and those are AOVs that comprise collections of lights. And we can combine those light groups in a compositing application and control their intensities and thereby, change the lighting in post-production. So, let's set up our light groups. Let's select that key light, which is an Arnold spotlight. Move over to the modify panel. Select the Arnold light in the modifier stack and scroll down to the bottom of the parameter list and there's a rollout labeled AOV. We just need to give it a name. So click in that field and type in, key underscore light. We also want to create a light group for the rim lights, so select one of those and in it's AOV light group field, type in rim light with an underscore separating those two words and because those two lights are instanced, if we select the other rim light, we'll see that it's included…

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