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Adding the main light

Adding the main light - Blender Tutorial

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Adding the main light

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Now that we have our scene set up and ready to go, we can start lighting and rendering. Now before we actually get into lighting, I want to make sure that cycles is set up properly. So let's go ahead and go into user preferences. Make sure that on the compute device that we have it set up to Cuda. And set up to your in video graphics card. Now if you don't have an in video card. Don't worry about this but if you do, go over to your render setting and make sure that your device is the GPU Compute device. And this will make your rendering happen faster. Now if you don't have an embedded card. You can certainly use CPU Compute and you'll get the same results, but just a little bit slower. So let's go ahead and just do a simple render of what we've got. So I'm going to go into my viewport shading and turn on render and we'll get an interactive render of our scene. Now actually I want to start tweaking settings. So I need more than one viewport here. So, I'm actually going to close off…

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