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Auxiliary lights

Auxiliary lights

From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Interior Lighting and Rendering

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Auxiliary lights

- [Instructor] With the sun in place, we can now start to do incidental, or auxiliary, lighting. If we take a look at our scene, you'll see that we've got a nice, strong sunlight in this test render, but there are places where the scene is darker, particularly the dining room. And so, the dining room actually has some of these pendant lights, so we can actually create some light from them, and the kitchen may have additional lighting such as a light on the stove, near the vent, and so on. So, let's add in some of that lighting to highlight certain areas of the scene. We're going to start with this pendant lighting. Now, this light here, in fact, if we select these in the scene here, I'm going to select one of these, and I'm just going to frame it up here in my perspective viewport, and you can see that these lights will illuminate the dining room table. Probably the best way to do this is to just create a circular…

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