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Creating and placing a simple light

Creating and placing a simple light - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Creating and placing a simple light

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- [Instructor] Creating and placing lights in a scene in Unreal Engine is actually very straightforward. Before we do that, though, we should take a look at where the lights exist as well as how the UI is positioned for lighting and where we can find some of the properties related to lights. So, if you have access to the exercise files, you'll notice that up in the top left corner, I am running 01_03 and your scene will actually load up something like this, either in wireframe or perhaps unlit like this or it might come in, by default, lit and you'll have a very dark space like this. That's because we don't have any lights going on and we're going to build the lighting for our scene. So, I'll leave it here at the lit mode for now because we're actually going to look at how we can place some of these lights into our scene. A couple things just to point out for working. You'll notice that the grid is displayed in the view part, it's up to you but I prefer to turn that off. If you do…

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