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Creating a basic light setup

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Creating a basic light setup

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- [Instructor] We're now going to create a basic lighting setup to illuminate this logo. We've got a material on the logo just to help with the lighting. It should show up some of the highlights. And so we'll create some lights from this little fly-out panel here. I'm going to start using the target lights. And what happens with the target light is a spotlight is created. It has a target tag on it. There's a null object and that null object is in the target object field. We could also drag in another object such as our logo and what it's going to do, the light is going to look at where the axis is. So I'm going to keep the null object here because then I've got a bit more flexibility of where I position that light. I can just drag the null around and you'll see the light following it. I don't really want to use a spotlight for this first light. I want to change the type to area. And it's going to be important to be able to see what we're doing so I'm going to bring up the interactive…

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