WATCH THIS Before Picking Your Lights in Blender! 

Please do the mesh lights and HDRI lights with reflections video! These videos are so helpful!

dude this is why you are the best. first minute in: "point light is blah blah blah let me give you MY definition" simplifying it for us and making this program so much easier to understand

The automatic Sky at the end was awesome and all I needed, thank you.

We don't have that many videos on Blender lighting, so more is always appreciated. Thanks!

Wow highly recommend doing such tutorials and giving details to new comers in blender, don't wory nathan bro there are many newbies to blender so no matter to consider experts commenting '*oh you have to do that *no that is so simple etc., | Love you ! 👍🏻

Yes please, do a follow-up video about custom lights and reflections!

I really enjoy watching your blender tips videos plz keep continueing these vids

I want to thank you for all the Blender videos. For me they are the best teaching videos. You don’t rush through and you explain the how and why’s ❤

Great work! Thank you for your time and expertise as always.

I'd love to see more on how to setup and use mesh lights for sure. Thanks.

It just helped me a lot specially the real world calculations that I didn't know about them, Thank you so much I appreciate it.

Love all your tutorials! Thanks a TON! I'd love to see more tutorials about lights and particles, volumes, and everything about super cool lighting. Also bought your "realtime materials" and they are FANTASTIC! but ))) I am having a problem with animated subjects, my principled texture shifts, please be kind to do a tutorial on how to bake principled textures ;) Thank you!

I noticed there's a "use nodes" option for lights in cycles but I've never used it, would be cool if you covered that. I also find the sky texture really useful.👍

Mesh lights, reflections, HDRIs... Could be valuable additions to your catalog of tutorials. I'm sure you could tell us some things I don't already know.

This are so helpful. thank you

this is good man.. thansk for making the vid and sharing knowledge ✌

I'd say mesh lights and emissives is pretty important followup to this. There is a lot to learn there.

Thanks for sharing!

can you make a follow up video to this by making a realistic day time and night time city render? maybe even show a day/night cycle as a bonus? the information in this video really helps🙏🏽 thank you

Really nice explanation. Thank you!🎉 Reflections! Todo! Really nice explanation manner. Waiting for reflections ;)

Thanks for this. Really like your tutrorials. Please do the mesh lights and HDRI lights with reflections video!

I really like this boy!!! ❤

As a photographer my knowledge of light's helped me a lot in 3d design

Thanks Ducky this was useful. An idea for a future video - how to make and play with fog (principled volume boxes)?

Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

Super useful vid!!

great recap

Yeeeah we want a vídeo for mesh and hdri lights❤

Nice vid - clear, get it done.. not too long

You can actualy use negitive values to take light out of your scene... can be a sort of cool effect sometimes :D

Custom mesh lights and HDRIs would be amazing!

Your tutorial are very good

Light reflections is really interesting topic

yes plls Mesh lights, reflections, HDRIs... awesome videos

That's interesting about the way blender measures the power of light sources. It's like the way we measure the power of the Sun in watts per square meter for the purpose of determining solar panel optimal efficiency. And we have special meters for measuring this. For reference at equatorial regions the sun's power at ground level is typically 1,000 watts per square meter.

In addition there are IES files which emulate the distribution of light from various types of light fixtures. I believe there is an international standard for these light fixtures and these can make very realistic looking lighting for architectural work. And one more thing you can make any object a light emitter by using an emission Shader or by using the default Shader and just turning up the emission value. You can make a long thin cylinder and turn up the emission Shader and you have something that looks like a fluorescent tube.

Daddy Ducky fill me up with these educational juices🤤

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for making solid lights disappear in reflections or refractions, toggle multiple importance!

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At 7:10 there's a big missed opportunity to mention the Blackbody node which you should use as the color source for the emission shader for realistic color temperatures.

Great tutorial! I recently switched from Cinema 4D to Blender and so far I'm very happy with it. One thing I haven't been able to manage is how to include/exclude lights from hitting objects. If you want for instance 8 different spotlights to hit only one specific object - not other objects (they are hit by other lights) next to it in the scene. A tutorial about how to solve that would be appreciated. Best regards from Denmark 🙂

Okay, I haven't even watched this yet, BUT GREAT JOB ON THE THUMBNAIL! ITS SO GOOD, LOL

Great video. One that you haven't mentioned which for others who want further realism is the IES light, which you add with nodes and which is specific to all lighting companies and free to download many of those ".ies" files to use in Blender. but for whomever wants to understand them and why use them there are some tutorials on youtube, you might want to checkout.

Please make tutorial for product modeling texturing and lighting

They need to make a “Strobe Light” in Blender also.

Nice

Ducky, I follow you but my "problem" is accessihg the properties for various lights in blender ver 4. Egsample where do I change th strength og for lights or size ets. It is quitr different from ver 3:6

Say, which is easier/faster for the computer to render with ray tracing, a scene lit by a point light, or one lit by a sun light of same point size?

I heard once, that some lights are more heavy to process than others, is that right? is area light more lightweight for our processors than spot light (or viceversa) ?

What should we do if we want the lights on the stage not to touch the plane?

Please make a video on how to get high quality renders with low noise. What is the workflow that you follow? Do you use cryptomattes? Or do you use 3rd party denoisers? What's your denoising setup and your whole approach towards it?

Oh my god thank you for mentioning the real world Watts/Lux thing because as a Filmmaker I was thinking about using Blender to use for previz to See where I want the Lights to be and how much Power they must have...does Blender have real world scale measurent Like Meter scales?

hey does anyone know why the lights won't work? I'm working on a project rn and for some reason the lights in this specific project refuse to work, so when I render the image, everything is completely dark. I think I may have messed with the default settings at one point (but idk fs), because when I start a new project and play with the lights, it works fine in the new project. Does anyone have any idea what I should do (and no I can't restart because I've worked on this project for a really long time so it'd be hard for me to restart completely)?

I wish Blender offered the ability to set the power of the lights in foot candles.

Make a video how to make a text from a preview 🙏

Please do make a video on those HDRI's

How do you make the light itself be visible? Your cone and point lights seemed to show on screen.

Light is measured in what ?

Reflections are fine in Cycles, it's just Eevee that has the issues....you just need to check a tick box to stop it casting...

Are emission shaders the same as an area light?

I love how you refused to read the official Blender sentence at the beginning, but then you went into this long process on Watts. LOLOLOL

Why are negative values discouraged?

somehow my light not working like no light came out.

Which GPU do you use? Thanks

Why do you wearing that funny heat?

"Now the sun light is not getting used as much as it was getting used" Me laughing because I have it in every project for the literal *slightest* amount of light to support the HDRI P.S I use Eevee, don't got a GPU, and our sky texture options are.... well they're not as dynamic as the cycles one. Not bad though

Ironic how Ducky has actually shifted to using Spotlights, meanwhile I hate spotlights with a burning passion because that's all you have in Source Filmmaker Update: I meant meanwhile, not meaning!

Why don't you use cinema 4D

Don't have time to watch the video right now, I just came here to asky why the beams on the sun symbol are not centered? This just triggered something very unpleasant in my brain

Who is smeef

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in some occasions i crank up the wats to 5000000 (5 mil), wonder how it translates to real life object hahahahaha

There is no such thing as wattage. In physics, optics and electrical engineering, there is Power Rating, in units of Watts. "Wattage" is a non-scientific colloqualism.

I think you could improve your tutorials. I have seen many from you about generic topics like this. Its like they're all geared for newbies for the clicks. Where is your advanced stuff ?

Please don't say "clicker" when referring to a checkbox. There is a reason we use standard terminology, doing otherwise runs the risk of confusing new-comers. Imagine a newbie having a problem, taking to Twitter, Reddit, a forum or Discord and proclaiming "I tried all the clickers but nothing happened"... 100% of people would be like "WTAF are you talking about?" and then the next 30 posts will be about trying to decipher what a "clicker" is, the next 10 will be taking the p*ss out of using the word "clicker", and anyone else who had any remotely useful suggestions to the actual problem would have lost interest 20 posts ago.