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Basic rendering concepts

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Basic rendering concepts

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- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 210-new house project, and you can see that I'm in the 3D composite model views drawing. Now in the previous video, we placed some light sources. So we placed some sort of background light over here from the light panel. So here, we created this distant light, the background light. And we also placed a spotlight here, as well. So we've got a spotlight, you know, shining a big load of light over the roof, as well. Now the reason we've done that is to allow us to get a good render from the camera view that we've created. Now the benefit that you have here is you can render to size in AutoCad Architecture. So you'll notice up in the Render tab on the ribbon over here, we've got a great big render panel. And if I click here, I can go into my Presets Manager. So there's all my presets there, and I can say that I want to render it in a window, I want the render size, the default size, the current preset, and so on and so forth. So the render duration…

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