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V-Ray lights are designed specifically to work with V-Ray and optimize its features. V-Ray also provides shadow options for standard 3ds Max lights, and as well as utilities to assist in the lighting process.

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Overview

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While you can use V-Ray is compatible with 3ds Max standard lights with V-Ray, V-Ray but it also includes a set of lights designed specifically for rendering with the V-Ray engine: Area lights, VRayDome, VRayMesh, VRayIES, VRayAmbient, and VRaySun.

If you want to use the standard 3ds Max lights, you should use the VRayShadow type in within the Shadows section settings of the respective Standard light.

The V-Ray Light Meter utility helps evaluate the lighting in a scene so adjustments can be made to improve lighting.

The V-Ray Lister offers a handy way to modify many common attributes of all lights in the scene. It works with both V-Ray lights and standard 3ds Max lights.

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Types of Lights

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As with standard 3ds Max lights, you can create these lights You can create any V-Ray light using the Lights tab on the Command Panel. Alternatively, use the V-Ray toolbar buttons or the V-Ray menu to create your lighting.

Depending on the scene and the effect you are trying to create with lightlights, you might select to use only one type of light, or any combination of lights.

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ThumbnailSubTextShines from a light source contained within a specified area or boundary. There're several types of Area lights
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ThumbnailSubTextSimulates the sun, creating a single bright light for daytime exterior and interior scenes.
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  • Area lights are useful for simulating man-made light sources in an interior environment, such as lamps. An Area light can have any one of many these different shapes: plane, disc, sphere, or the shape of a mesh object. A dome light, which creates light within a dome shape to create achieve a traditional global illumination setup, is also considered an Area light.
  • A Sun light is a spherical light source placed at a specific location which simulates the sun in the sky. A Sun light has some unique qualities. Check the VRaySun page for more information.
  • Photometric lights are designed to simulate light sources exactly as they behave in real life by loading and using an IES (Illumination Engineering Society) file with details about the light's behavior, such as how the light passes through lenses and its intensity and falloff.
  • Ambient light permeates a scene and illuminates from all angles equally without providing contrast.

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Shadows

The VRayShadow plugin is used to achieve raytraced shadows with 3ds Max lights and V-Ray. Apart from supporting blurry (or area) shadows, they also cast the correct shadows from any objects with V-Ray displacement, as well as from any transparent objects.

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V-Ray Lister

The Light

Lister

This UI window is a handy way to modify many common attributes of all of the lights in the scene. It works with both V-Ray lights and standard 3ds Max lightstab of the V-Ray Lister offers an easy and quick way to manage the settings of all V-Ray and 3ds Max standard lights in a scene through one window.

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Light Meter

The VRayLightMeter helper is an aid for showing VRayLightMeter helper shows how a scene is illuminated and is . The helper is intended to simulate the use of a real-life light meter that is used utilized in photography and film production.

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