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Light a scene with Octane lights

Light a scene with Octane lights

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Light a scene with Octane lights

- [Narrator] Let's turn our attention to lighting a scene using Octane lights. The goal here is to become familiar with creating and positioning lights, so let's get started. And we're gonna focus on area lights. Now, I've fired up the live viewer. And as you can see, there's nothing here. It's just darkness. That's because in my Octane settings, in the settings environment tab, I've got the environment color set to black. A default is around 60. And if we just close that down, resend the scene, you can see that we can now see the water bottles that we have here. Now I like to light from complete darkness, so I'm gonna set that down to complete black. And we'll just close that. And resend the scene. So now we can begin creating our lights. Now the first one is gonna be an overhead light, so we'll come over to objects, lights, and we'll just choose the Octane area light. And so this area light is created, and if we just come out of this camera, just zoom out a bit, you can see our…

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