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Adjusting light distribution

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Adjusting light distribution

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- [Instructor] Another really important parameter of a light is its distribution pattern. What we're seeing here now is a uniform, spherical distribution pattern. And that means that my light is going to emit illumination in all directions equally. For this dining room lamp, I might get better results, and I might be able to control it better if I use a different distribution type. I've got a little light here that's inside this lamp. And we can select that. Go over to the modify panel. And in the general parameters is the distribution type here. And it's defaulted to uniform spherical. Let's see what that looks like if we render it. I'll go to the perspective view and right click in there to activate it. And we'll do a test render with draft quality settings in the ART renderer. And we've got a little bit warmer color here. I previously set this to have a color temperature of 3200 degrees. And the camera is set to 3600 degrees and so that's why this is looking kind of warm. This is…

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