Adding Sunlight to Cinema 4D Space Scene

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JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi. This is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. Let's add our sunlight, and we will create the sun object, we will put it behind the ship because is flying away from the sun, but before we render this, we want to go to Render Settings and actually turn the light off and that light is of course the auto light, which is the light that illuminates the scene when there aren't any other light; it's just a sort of a work light that helps you see what's going on in the scene. I'm going to delete the light we just created and the auto light comes on and you can see the auto light working, but of course because we deselected it in the options panel in the render settings, if we render this, we'll see that nothing shows up. So once we turn the auto light off, there is no light in the scene until we get back to the editor field. So once again let's create a light, this will be our sunlight and we'll move this back. In the light dialogue we can change the color, the shadow, the intensity of the light and a number of other illumination factors. For now, we'll change the color of the light. We'll make it sort of a yellowish sunlight type of color. We'll keep this in omni light and omni light is exactly what it says it is. It illuminates everything, but we have other types of light, we have spotlights, distant lights which are often used for sunlight but we aren't going to use a distant light for this, I'll explain why in a minute. Parallel lights, tube lights and area lights, area lights of course cover a large area and take a long time to render but create a very very smooth and realistic light.

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