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Rendering self-illuminated surfaces

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Rendering self-illuminated surfaces

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- [Instructor] Although we can render the surface of an Arnold light, that doesn't really help us in this case, when we want to render the diffusion, or the illuminated part, of this light fixture. And that's because the diffusion object has rounded or filleted corners, but the Arnold Area light, has got square corners. Let's select that light, and we can see that there's a bit of overlap there. We can maximize that view with Alt W. The light is a little bit larger than the available area of the diffusion part. So we can get around this problem by not rendering the light at all, but instead rendering the diffusion with a self-illuminated material. So let's set that up in the Material Editor. Open up the Material Editor, right-click, and choose Maps, Arnold, Utility, and we could use a Flat if we wanted a specific color, or perhaps a Map, but for a light we can use a Blackbody node, and that way we'll be able to dial in…

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