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Lighting your scene

Lighting your scene

When it comes time to light inside of your Cinema 4D project, any production experience you may have had is definitely going to come in handy, because any traditional lighting techniques you've learned inside of a studio definitely apply to lighting inside of Cinema. So, now that we're into our project, let's go ahead and select our lighting scene cinema file and press Cmd+E, or Ctrl+E on Windows to open the project. Let's start by adding a light to the project by going up to our Creation tools and just clicking on the light bulb in the upper right corner. Notice once we've applied a light, we can no longer see our warning text. That's because the light was automatically created there at the origin so I need to reposition this light in the scene. To better see where I'm positioning that light, let's go up to a four up view by clicking the upper right hand corner. Now I'm going to click on the z axis and bring this light forwards a little bit, and then bring it down in the scene. I…

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