From the course: Creating Product Shots in Maya

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Optimizing Final Gathering

Optimizing Final Gathering - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Creating Product Shots in Maya

Optimizing Final Gathering

The final step in setting up our lighting is appropriately named Final Gather. Final Gather is a global illumination technique which simulates the way that light bounces off of diffused surfaces. And we don't actually have very much diffuse component to this particular scene. As I mentioned before, it's almost all shiny, reflective surfaces. So, in this case, Final Gather is less important than it would be in some other case. If your product was something like a cereal box then Fiinal Gather would be really important. Here it's less so but we still want to enable it because its going to add a little bit of light to our scene and its going to give us just a little bit more of realism. Currently it's disabled. So lets take a look at our rendering with Final Gather disabled. We'll click in the camera view and render that view. Once again, that took about 30 seconds to render it with Final Gather disabled. I want to store that image. And so that we can really get a clear sense of the…

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