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Adjusting attributes of duplicate spot lights

Adjusting attributes of duplicate spot lights - Maya Tutorial

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Adjusting attributes of duplicate spot lights

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- [Instructor] Spotlight in it's light in a conical or cone shaped pattern. It's a very versatile type of light that can achieve many different effects, especially in Arnold. In this exercise we'll use them for these down lights recessed into the ceiling. Go to the Create menu and choose Lights, Spot Light and it's created very, very small at the origin. Let's increase the size of the icon. With the light still selected, go to the Attribute Editor Control + A. And in the Object Display section, increase the Locator Scale, bring that up to 250. Now the light cone is large enough that we can see it in the view port. Let's rename it in the Channel Box. When we rename the Transform node up here, the shape now gets renamed automatically. I want it to have the convention of the word shape at the end of the shape nodes name. To achieve that, I'm going to rename the Transform node twice, clicking that field and rename it,…

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