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Add falloff for realistic lighting

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Add falloff for realistic lighting

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- [Instructor] We touched on the importance of adding fall off to lights at the beginning of this chapter. And I've just set up this little scene here. We've got our spotlight, and it doesn't actually have any fall off on it at the moment, and you can see it's not got a really realistic decay of light. So, first thing's first is to just turn on the fall off. And you can change the radius using the numerical values here, or you have a kind of visual here as well. So I'm just gonna make it around here. You can see it's now falling off that distant point there. So, this becomes more important when you get more lights in the scene. So, say we want to fill in these shadows. We can add another light, and I've got one in the scene already, and it's just completely overpowering, completely washing everything out. We lose all that character in the scene, and it just looks terrible. This makes it much more difficult to control lights in the scene, because the light just keeps going on forever…

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