From the course: Creating Product Shots in Maya

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Setting IblShape attributes

Setting IblShape attributes - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Creating Product Shots in Maya

Setting IblShape attributes

In this product shot, I don't want to see that image in the background. I just want to have a black backdrop. To achieve that effect, I want to select the IBL node and go back to its attributes. Ctrl + a if it's not already open. And open up the Render Stats section. And turn off Primary Visibility. And that way it will not be visible to the camera. But we do want to leave everything else on in here. The next thing we'll do is adjust the rotation of the IbL node. So this is a major advantage of having this sphere. Is that we can rotate it any way we want and that will change the lighting. And I played around with this already. And I figured out that I want the sun to be on the right hand side. Screen right, over here. And to achieve that, I'm actually going to set the rotate y value to about -160. So, in fact, I'll just set it directly here. -160. We can rotate the sphere to change the lighting. But currently, if we move this sphere that will not affect the rendering at all. Because…

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