Learn an essential workflow to lighting in 3ds Max and fundamental techniques to establishing moods and adding greater realism to your scenes through lighting. Contains over 2 hours of project-based training. Ideal for new and beginning artists. Popular highlights include: * Overview of Standard Light Types * Overview of Photometric Lights * Controlling Light Decay and Attenuation * Modeling Environments to Scale for Accurate Lighting * Using Shadow Maps for Efficient Rendering * Utilizing Accurate Raytraced Shadows * Creating Soft and Diffuse Shadows * Real-world Lighting Profiles with Photometric Lights * Exposure Controls to View HDR Renders * Outdoor Lighting with Daylight System and Skylight * Altering Rendering Controls for Objects * Adding Glow Effects to Geometry and Lights * Creating Volumetric Lighting Effects * Radiosity to Simulate Indirect Illumination * Using the Light Lister * Creating Gobo Effects Lesson Outline: 1. Introduction and Project Overview 1:36 2. Intensity and Attenuation controls of Standard Lights 9:52 3. Specialized parameters of spot lights 7:14 4. Understanding and using Direct lights 5:17 5. Using Photometric lights in 3ds Max 9:11 6. Adding Shadow Maps to rendered scenes 8:42 7. Using Raytraced shadows in 3ds Max 4:22 8. Utilizing Area and Advanced Raytraced shadows 11:29 9. Shadow parameters of mental ray lights 4:45 10. Altering the Rendering Controls on individual objects 4:16 11. Adding glow effects to geometry and lights 8:11 12. Adding volumetric effects to lights 7:22 13. Including and excluding objects from individual lights 4:42 14. Using the Skylight to create outdoor illumination 7:35 15. Creating outdoor lighting using the Daylight system 11:38 16. Using radiosity to calculate realistic indirect illumination 7:48 17. Methods for refining and enhancing radiosity results 10:48 18. Using the Light Lister in 3ds Max 2:09 19. Using the Advanced Effects for greater lighting control 8:52 Total Run Time: 2:15:56

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