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Adding a self-illuminating material

Adding a self-illuminating material

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Adding a self-illuminating material

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- [Instructor] It's true that you need a light source to render an interior space. It's not true that you need an actual light. What I'm trying to say here is we can add another type of light source. That light source is simply a material that can emit light. So in Revit, let's go new under models. For the template, I'm going to grab my architectural template and I'm going to click open. On my architecture tab, I'm just going to draw four walls and hit Escape. Going to put a floor in here, finish. Go to my ceiling plan level one. Just going to put a ceiling in there real quick and I'm going to down to level one floor plan. And I'm going to cut a section through here, bring that section up. And on my component tab, I'm just going to go model in place. Call it casework I suppose. Casework 1 works. I'm going to do an extrusion. I'm going to pick a plane and it's going to be this back wall. I'm just going to draw some fancy…

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