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The V-Ray IES light

The V-Ray IES light - 3ds Max Tutorial

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The V-Ray IES light

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- [Instructor] For both interior and exterior renders, perhaps especially so for visualization pieces, the VRay IES Light offers an extremely powerful and easy-to-use method for adding real-world lighting data to our scenes. As we have with many of our previous light types then, by coming over to the VRay toolbar and clicking to select the IES option. Now, we do create this light type a little differently than some of the others. So, in the front viewport that we're now using let's left click and drag to set the position of both the IES Light itself and its target in the scene. Taking care, of course, not to place the light inside any of the scene geometry. If we then go ahead and start an IPR session you can see that what we get is a fairly plain looking all that impressive at all, seeing as all we are getting is a flat lighting effect along with some very CG looking, sharp edge shadows. What we have to remember though, is that this particular light type is designed to work…

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