Understanding Lights in Maya - Part 1by Aziz Khan, Afghanistan
5 - As you see the shadows are too dark because we don't have any fill lights in the scene that is why they are looking too dark, for the sake of these tutorials we will just keep focusing on one single light to see the result of our changes,
You could also increase the shadow color to see the changes, but you won't make any difference except little bit change,
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Now uncheck the Use Depth Map Shadows and scroll down to bottom and check (Use Raytrace Shadows),
Light Angle = will help you to smooth out shadows around the edges of objects,
Shadow Rays and Ray depth Limit = will help you to remove noise from your shadows, this works conjunction with Raytracing in the render settings as you will see next
7 - open up (Render Settings) and then expand the (Anti Aliasing Quality) tab,
Max Sample Level = this setting will help you to get rid of jagged edges, if you render your scene and you could see that your objects looking jagged this is the option where you could control it out, well don't crank it up more then 3 otherwise you will compensate with huge rendering time.
Raytracing = this works fine with (Raytrace Shadows) crank up the values to the end and will help you to remove noise from your shadows.
8 - Hit render, and you will see little bit smoother result
9 - ok its time to final adjustment in the light settings, open up Render Settings and scroll down to bottom expand the Final Gathering tab just check (Final Gathering) and increase the (Point Density) to 2,
10 - Hit the render button to see the result, Here i come up with the same settings we did
Ok guys I hope this could help you to understand something about lights in Maya, in the part 2 of this tutorial series will explore about (Point Light) and (Spot Light),
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If you still have any Comments, Suggestions, or Questions please free to write me at aziz3d@clubsrk.com
Related Links
Read Part 2 of Understanding the Lights - Point and Spot Lights here
Read Part 3 of Understanding the Lights - Area and Volume Lights Here
Read Part 4 of Understanding the Lights - Interior Lighting Here
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