Introduction to Cinema 4D
Course 4: Materials, Cameras, and Lighting with OctaneRender: IES lights
By Francisco Cabezas
About the video: IES lights
Overview
“In this lesson we will use .IES files to create photorealistic lights. This type of lights is widely used in info-architecture to simulate realistic lights, such as wall washers. As with the area lights, we can also touch the power and color of the light.”
In this video lesson Francisco Cabezas addresses the topic: IES lights, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Materials, Cameras, and Lighting with OctaneRender. Bring your project to life by adding lights, cameras, and materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will learn a type of lamp photometrically realistic, such as the IES lights. showed you how to do it. IES lights are photometrically realistic lights. They take a spectrum of light like in reality a light bulb, a halogen or any type of light emitter, and convert it to a drawing in Cinema 4D. I say a drawing, because the lights IES are the typical lights that look against a wall and create a drawing on the wall. For example, wall or the lights above the frames. And all this kind of lights emit a different drawing. In this case, let's create it, first let's put Live Viewer, ...”
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Francisco Cabezas
By Francisco Cabezas
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