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Light bank and light linking

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Light bank and light linking

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- [Narrator] Now we have our scene with the original lighting setup that I provided for you and what we're going to do in this video is just look at two other tools that we have available for us in Houdini to help with the lighting process. And the first one I'm going to show you is the light bank. So, what I'm going to do is is I'm just going to make a new tab over here. So, I'm going to hit the little plus button, make a new pane tab type and I'm going to make this a data tree. And we're going to choose a viewer and that's going to be a light bank. Okay, and so now I'm going to go into lighting here and this is really cool because now you can see that all the lights that I had setup in this lighting sub network; here we have all these different options for it, we can control the color, we can control the intensity, we can change what type of light it is. So, as we're fine tuning our renders, we can control all of our lights from one place. Enable and disable things, solo things, and…

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