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IES lighting

IES lighting - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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IES lighting

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri. If you want to add more character to your lights and actually make them more accurate to real-world lighting, you can use what are called IES Profiles. Now, these are standard profiles for your lights that mimic real-world lights. Now, you can use these to create accurate lighting or just to add life to the lights you have in your scene. Now, before we actually get started, let's go ahead and just take a look at this scene here. Now, I'm going to go ahead and switch it over to Lit, and you'll see that we really don't have a lot of light in this scene. So, let's go into our Lights, and we'll just create a Point Light. I'm going to left-click and drag that into the scene. As with all lights in Unreal, it's pretty consistent. There's really not much variation to this light. Now, IES Profiles can add a lot more life to that, so let's actually before we go any deeper into this, let's hop over…

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