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Light Select

Light Select - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Light Select

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- [Instructor] Even though we have already rendered and comped the basic lighting passes that we got out of V-Ray, there is still so much more that we could do with regard to gaining control over the lighting in our image using other render elements that V-Ray makes available. One of which is the light select element. Indeed, if we take a look at the V-Ray Light Lister, you can see that we actually have four separate V-Ray lights in our scene. All set at varying intensities, but all using the same default white as their color component. Now as things stand with our current comp in After Effects, we can, of course tweak brightness and coloration for the scene a little bit, but how cool would it be if we could easily change both intensity and color for each of our lights separately and in an almost instantaneous fashion? Well using the V-Ray Light Select element, so long as we are prepared to take a little bit of time to perform the required setup, we can do just that. In the Render…

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