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Filling shadows with area soft lights

Filling shadows with area soft lights - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Filling shadows with area soft lights

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- [Instructor] To make our natural daylight interior more appealing, we can add some studio light trickery, a couple of soft lights to fill in the shadows. So we can isolate that effect from the sun and sky environment, let's turn off that environment. Go into the Rendering menu, Environment, and disable Use Map. We can close that dialog and now create a light in the top viewport, get in close with the middle mouse and the wheel, so we can frame up that living room. Go to the Create panel, Lights, Photometric, Target Light. Click and drag to create the light and its target, release the mouse and you've just created the light and its target. Right click to exit the tool and with the light still selected, go to the Modify panel and rename it Soft Light 001, we want to move it up off the floor. Let's use the move tool and click on the line that connects the light and its target, and when that's selected, both the light and its target are selected. We can go over to an orthographic view…

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