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Working with the V-Ray light

Working with the V-Ray light

From the course: V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max Essential Training

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Working with the V-Ray light

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- The V-Ray specific light that we will look at in this video is arguably the most versatile of them all, and so, it's probably the one we will find ourselves working with on the majority of V-Ray lighting jobs that we undertake. This would be the V-Ray Light. To help demonstrate some of its features we have our test scene here, which if I just hit Render currently produces nothing but reflections, so no lighting at all. When working with V-Ray Lights in our scenes we will probably want to make good use of a lighting tool that should be pretty familiar to 3ds Max users. This, if I open up the Tools Menu, is the V-Ray Light Lister. This has exactly the same interface as the standard 3ds Max version only here we actually see a listing of any V-Ray lights that we have set up in our scene, which of course is not the case with Max's own version of the Light Lister. The brilliant thing about this is that we now have quick and easy access to all of the most used parameters on our V-Ray…

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