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Light types: Point and spot

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Light types: Point and spot

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- [Instructor] Now we're going to take a look at how we can start creating and modifying lights in Houdini. So I've kind of made our scene a bit of a blank canvas, I've turned off all the lighting that I had built before, and I have this in this kind of very flat, gray, boring wireframe shaded look, just so we can have a flat starting point to create some lighting from. So there's a lot of different kind of lights, and we're just going to cover a couple of the most fundamental ones, and in this video we are going to look at point and spotlights. So there's a few different ways we can make light, and one way, we've got our light and camera shelf up here, I could select point light and just drop that down here. And now you can see we have a point light created in our scene. I'm going to grab it up and put it next to our lighting and some adhere, and open up our parameters window and just drag this over. Now you can see I've dropped it in the scene at a certain position, and of course I…

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