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The V-Ray Light material

The V-Ray Light material - Maya Tutorial

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The V-Ray Light material

In this video, we'll be taking a look at the VRay Light Material. Now, we have this box set up with a simple VRay material that's set to a blue diffused color. If we render this frame, we'll see a blue color, but we'll see shading on that blue as well. Now, what we'll do is we will create a VRay Light Material, which is found here. What this does is it's very similar to Maya's Surface Shader material. The Surface Shader, as you may or may not know, gives you a flat color. No matter what the lighting is in the scene, we will go ahead and assign the light material to the box. And now we're going to assign the same blue color to the color of the light material, that is right there. Now when we render this box out, put this in the history buffer and Render. You'll see that the box itself is a very flat blue color. (BLANK_AUDIO) Now when compared in the history to the previous render, you'll see that the flat blue has no shading whatsoever. No shadowing. It's pure color is what gets output…

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