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Overview

V-Ray includes a set of lights designed specifically for rendering with the V-Ray engine. 


UI Paths:

||V-Ray menu|| > Lights

||Add menu|| > Lights


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Lights

Rectangle Light

Rectangle lights are useful for simulating man-made light sources in an interior environment, such as lamps. A rectangle light can have any one of two different shapes: plane or disc.

Sphere Light

A V-Ray Light object in the shape of a sphere, casting light outward in all directions.                                                                                                                                                                 

Dome Light

Creates light within a dome or spherical shape to create a traditional global illumination setup. This light is frequently used to load HDRI environment images. 

Mesh Light

Create light sources that have volume and shape defined by geometry in the scene without the need to use self-illuminated objects and global illumination.

IES Light

Designed to simulate a light source's distribution pattern exactly as they behave in real life by loading and using an IES (Illumination Engineering Society) file.

Sun Light

A spherical light source placed at a specific location that simulates the sun in the sky. The Sun light has some unique qualities.                                                

Sun and Sky

Create a realistic Sun and sky using this one-click setup.



Legacy Lights

Non-physically-accurate lights that can be used in some creative projects.
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