From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
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Add architectural lights
From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
Add architectural lights
- [Instructor] Now let's move on to these exterior sconces. I want to put lights into each one of these so that they illuminate the outside of the structure. Now, we can do this by creating some V-Ray lights and turning them into spotlights and then placing them. So I'm actually going to go into my perspective window here. Now let's go ahead and create a V-Ray light. So I'm going to go into Create, Light, V-Ray, we want to create a V-Ray light and in this case, I want to make it a disc and then I'm just going to make a fairly small disc here. Radius of maybe around four or five, somewhere around there. Basically I want this to be smaller than the opening of one of those sconces. And then I'm going to position it over that sconce. So in this case, I'm going to go into my top view here, let's get that positioned vertically. And if you'll notice right now, this light is shining down, so I'm going to rotate this, make…
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