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

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Rendering final scene

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Rendering final scene

- I now have my nighttime lighting set up and ready to go. And if we want we can do a quick render in Arnold to see what that looks like. So as you can see we've got a pretty good balance of light, and we can certainly plus that in post and we're going to do that using render setup. Now, in order to avoid repeating all the same lessons we just did for the daytime scene, I've already set up my render layers. So let's go ahead and take a look at what we have. So in my render setup window, I have my main layer, this is my hero shot. I have AO which is ambient occlusion, let's see that. I have my shadow pass. I have reflections. Now, one of the things I did with reflections was I moved the trees that were in the background into the foreground so that they would reflect in the window. Give us a little bit more interesting reflections. And then I also have the selection paths. Now I changed that a little bit simply by adding…

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