From the course: Introduction to 3D
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Set up lights in Cinema 4D
- [Man] Now let's move into rendering. I've already textured and positioned the rest of the characters, as well as added a background. We're now ready to render. Now rendering requires that we have lights and cameras, just like we have in photography. So let's go ahead and start with lights in Cinema 4D. We can create lights in one of two places. We have the Create menu and if you scroll down to Light, you'll see we have a number of different types of lights. We also have a light panel here, and this allows us to add any number of lights. So let's go ahead and start off with a very simple light, and that is a Spotlight. If I left-click on this, you'll see that we get this spotlight in our scene, and you have it right here as well. So if I select this in the object manager and go to Basic, you can see we have a light. If we want to, we can rename that to spotlight to make it a little bit more descriptive. Now I'm going…
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Cinema 4D interface and overview4m 8s
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Viewports and navigation in Cinema 4D3m 52s
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Select objects in Cinema 4D2m 35s
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Move, rotate, and scale in Cinema 4D4m 55s
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Create hierarchies in Cinema 4D2m 13s
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Add color and textures in Cinema 4D4m 37s
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Set up lights in Cinema 4D3m 57s
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Add cameras in Cinema 4D3m 45s
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Rendering in Cinema 4D1m 53s
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