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

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Moving lights from day to night

Moving lights from day to night - Maya Tutorial

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

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Moving lights from day to night

- [Instructor] Now let's turn our attention to nighttime lighting. Now I already have a scene that's lit for the daytime and I can repurpose a lot of that for my nighttime scene. Now, remember at night there's a lot less exterior light and a lot more of the interior light will show through. So let's start with our main exterior lights and repurpose those for nighttime. So, the first thing I want to do is just move my Sun. So I've got this scene here, I'm going to hop out to a top view and you'll see I have this light here and that's my main sunlight. Now this is already constrained using an Aim constraints so all I have to do is move this and it will automatically change. So I'm going to move this over to the right. Now remember, when we go from day to night, the Sun moves across the sky and so moving this particular light from left to right will give us a more accurate simulation of what this structure will look like at…

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