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Lighting Analysis tool

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Lighting Analysis tool

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- [Narrator] For visualization professionals who sometimes find themselves working more on the technical, as opposed to artistic side tools in V-Ray Next, so it can help us both measure and analyze light levels in a scene, including the ability to create false color heat maps and data overlays in order to show luminance or illuminate state of values. To perform its Lighting Analysis, V-Ray uses two separate components, these being the V-ray LightMeter helper object and the V-Ray Lighting Analysis render element. Now of course the LightMeter helper has been in V-Ray since version two. Here it has been updated for better precision, is new to V-Ray Next. The LightMeter helper, if we just add one of these to the scene by coming to the Helpers and V-Ray sections in the Command Panel, use the Auto Grid option, is a rectangular helper that shows illuminance values at the vertices of the grid object that is created. It can show total illuminance, direct illuminance, indirect illuminance, and…

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