From the course: Unreal: Introduction to Lighting
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Light shapes - Unreal Engine Tutorial
From the course: Unreal: Introduction to Lighting
Light shapes
- [Instructor] There a couple tips and tricks that you can do with lighting in Unreal Engine to bring some different effects to the overall scene. So, we saw how we could take advantage of a light profile here for this wall sconce going on over here. Let's take a look at something else that can help us kind of bring the scene to life a little bit. I'm just going to click on this little chest over here with the TV and just press F to focus in because what we want to do is actually work this little fluorescent light tube that's sitting about the TV there and what I'm going to do now is actually bring in a simple point light and then build a custom shape to fit to that and then we can do something with the material really quickly to actually kind of give this idea of a florescent light bulb projecting light down in the scene. So, a couple ways that we can do that. We know that we can just drag in a point light here or we can use the L hot key. I'm just going to drag a point light right…
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