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Basic light types

Basic light types - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Basic light types

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- [Speaker] Lighting is where Unreal Engine truly shines. Let's look at the different types of light actors and how you can use them to illuminate your scene. To begin we'll open the lighting types map. And as I go along I'm also going to be referencing the lights and the modes here as well. Point lights are a single point of light they have no direction or scale per-se. But their location matters a lot. You can control the amount of light that's emitted by dragging up and down on this intensity slider. Or simple inputting your own value. You can also set the color directly. Or if you're trying to match a real world light. You can use temperature and adjust it this way. However, remember the light color is still affecting that. In addition to the intensity in color. You can control the attenuation radius of this light. Which is essential how far the rays can actually travel. This can really help you fine tune which parts…

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