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Add and control light

Add and control light - Maya Tutorial

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Add and control light

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- [Instructor] In order to render within Maya, we will need light. Now remember, rendering is a lot like photography and photography uses light to make everything happen. So let's add some light to our scene. We can add lights in a couple of different places. Under the Create menu, under Lights, we have a number of different lights. If we want to, we can also go over to the rendering shelf and you'll see that we have a couple of lights here. Now in the Arnold menu, we also have a couple of different lights that we can use, but we're just going to use the ones on the rendering shelf. Now I'm going to select this icon, which is basically a spotlight, so I'm going to go ahead and click that. And when we do, you'll see it kind of comes in here in the scene. And if I hit my move icon, I can move that up and bring it out. Now it's coming in a little small because I have a fairly large scene, so I can just scale that up using…

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