From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering

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Auxilliary lights

Auxilliary lights - Maya Tutorial

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Auxilliary lights

- [Instructor] We can also add other types of light to the scene. In this case, I'm going to add what call an auxiliary light, which basically just lights certain portions of the scene. Now, if we look at our render here in Arnold, you'll see that I'm getting some really dark spots here in the garage, and maybe this side wall here is also a little dark, and we can bring that up by just adding a little bit more light. So I'm going to go Arnold, Lights, Area Light. And, again, that comes in a little small, but we can always scale it up. And then, here, I'm going to basically position it. So I'm going to rotate that basically about 90 degrees along the y-axis, so make it kind of almost parallel with one of those walls, and then just position it here. And so what this light can do is basically just fill in this wall. So when I do that, I want to check the light attributes and scroll down to Camera. I want camera visibility to be…

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