From the course: Cinema 4D R20 Essential Training: VFX
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Work with lights and shadows - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D R20 Essential Training: VFX
Work with lights and shadows
- [Instructor] In other courses in the R20 series, we've looked at how lights work inside of Cinema 4D. But to recap briefly, we need to tell lights to cast shadows and give them fall offs so that they behave more like real world lights. That being said, the light cast does not bounce and so you'd need to turn on an effect called global illumination to achieve a more realistic sense of lighting at the expense of slower render times. So before we continue, and as is common when we have footage in our scene, you may not be able to see this immediately, and it might not be connected. So come over to the texture manager and make sure that you reconnect the footage just by coming to edit and then either relink or replace textures. You can relink to the source footage You should then get a green tick in the status and everything should look as it does now. So, before we continue, let's take a render of our scene so that we have a reference point. So, press Shift+R and render this now to the…
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