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The Sphere light

The Sphere light - Maya Tutorial

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The Sphere light

In this video, we're going to take a look at the VRay's Sphere Light. Here in our oil rig scene, we have a rectangle light already creating, but I'm going to go ahead and disable light simply by hiding it Ctrl + H. Now that light, which you can see here in the outliner, is hidden. Keep in mind the scale of the scene is in meters, and we have a rather large oil rig that is 60 meters by 60 meters. This is important because the light falloff for VRay is dependent on scale and size. Lets go ahead and create our VRay's Sphere Light through create Lights, VRay Sphere. Now, place this sphere light at the origin. Now, because we are in a very large scene measured in meters, this gives us a very small locator size. Let's go ahead and snap that close to our geometry here. That'll give us a chance to move it right over. So, there's our sphere light, and that's how small it is in the face of this large scale. Let's see about moving it some place a little bit more friendly, and we'll render it at…

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