From the course: Maya: Render Setup System
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Override light attributes - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Render Setup System
Override light attributes
- [Instructor] We can also add overrides for lights. The process for this is a little bit different and it involves the light editor. So let's go ahead and open up our render setup. And I'm going to go ahead and position my viewport so we can see what's going on. Now, this particular scene has two layers just like before. And we're going to change the lights in layer A. So in order to do that I need to add the lights to the collection. So the easiest way to do that is to middle-click on the lights in the default layer and drag them over the layer you want. In this case, layer A. Now, when I click on this you'll see that there's really no place to do overrides. All I can do is just turn the lights on or off. Now, if I wanted to I could add lights individually to a collection and change them there, but there's a more efficient way to do this using the light editor. So if I double-click on this lights layer, up comes the…
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