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V-Ray light types: IES

V-Ray light types: IES

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray Next

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V-Ray light types: IES

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- [Instructor] For both interior and exterior renders the V-Ray IES light type offers an extremely powerful and easy to use method for adding real world lighting data to our scenes. As we have with our previous light types then, let's go ahead and add one of those to the scene by coming to the lights toolbar and clicking to select the IES option. This instantly giving us the reminder that this is a light type that works quite a bit differently than those that we have looked at so far, simply because what we get now is a dialogue that he's asking us for the location of the IES file that we want to attach to this light. A file that in simple terms, is a digital profile of a real world light fixture, something that describes both the emission pattern and the emission strength of a specific bulb in a specific light fixture. Now there are lots of free IES files to be found on the net with many lighting manufacturers such as…

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