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Creating a directional light

Creating a directional light - Maya Tutorial

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Creating a directional light

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- [Instructor] To fully control and art direct the look of natural daylight, use a directional light. In the language of the Arnold core, it's called a distant light. No matter where the light icon is positioned in the scene, a directional light produces parallel rays of illumination from an infinitely distant source. That's perfect for emulating the natural daylight from the sun. Additionally, we can use the Show Manipulator tool to easily match the angle of the distant light to the sunlight from a background environment, so that our lighting and our backdrop will match. To illustrate that, I've created a camera that's focused on some shadows on the floor of our interior environment. In this camera floor window, we can go to Renderer, Arnold, and start the interactive production rendering. And we see we have a splash of sunlight on the floor. That's coming from this sky dome here. We'll use that as a reference to line up…

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