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Maya point lights

Maya point lights - Maya Tutorial

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Maya point lights

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- [Instructor] In addition to the spotlight, the point light is another popular light that you will use in rendering. Now we can find the point light either in create, lights, point light, or we can find it here in the rendering shelf. So let's create a point light for Arnold. So I'm going to go ahead and go into my rendering shelf and let's create a point light. And let's go ahead and move that around. And if we just do use all lights, you'll see that this light is essentially the bare light bulb in the room. So as I move it up, it illuminates more, and so on. So let's go ahead and change some of the Arnold properties for this. So let's go into Arnold and start rendering. And just like with the spotlight, we do need to amp up the exposure. So I'm going to go into my Arnold tab. And under exposure, let's just type in 20. And that's actually pretty big, but one of the things about lights is that they do have fall off.…

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