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Create rays of light

Create rays of light - Blender Tutorial

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Create rays of light

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- [David] Have you ever wanted to add those cool shafts of light that you see right before sunset? You know what I'm talking about? The sun is setting and you have these long light shafts or sometimes we call them god rays and they go right through the clouds. Well, in this week's Blender's Tips, Tricks, and Techniques I'm gonna show you just how by using the Sun Beams node. Let me show you. First, let's delete this cube, X Delete, Shift + C to center the scene, Shift + A to make a Plane. Let's make it kind of big. S + Y to scale them out. And let's move it back, G + Shift + Z. Let's kill this lamp. Shift + A, let's add a Monkey. Kind of big, S + G + Z. Let's go to Camera view, that's 0 on the numpad or View, Active Cameras. N, Lock Camera to View. Let's look at this monkey somehow sorta dramatic. Yeah, that looks pretty good. Turn this off. Let's click here, switch to Cycles, if you haven't already. Shift + A, let's add a Sun Lamp. Zoom out here, rotate. Rotate sun. You can hit N and…

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