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Scene lighting

Scene lighting - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Scene lighting

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- [Instructor] This is a simple scene to illustrate how you can get creative with lighting. Now, if we come over to our Display settings and change it from Quick Shading to Gouraud Shading, you can see that the lighting in this scene is really intense. And that's because our Omni light here is set to quite a high value. Well, we're going to use the Project tab to limit the effects of this light and really art direct the whole scene. So, we can twirl down our hierarchy and maybe set this mode to be Include. And now, we want to Include only our spheres, so, they've got this really hot, bright look to them. If I press Alt+R, we're now including the Diffuse, Specular, and Shadows, and the whole hierarchy, so, everything underneath this main object will be included. If we turn off Diffuse, then we won't be including it and we won't be able to see anything here. Now, let's enable that and we'll look at the Area light. So, the Area light is set to Include, and also, the Spot, which means if…

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