Lighting the Jungle Temple
The Jungle Temple required a more complex lighting setup, but again, we have the Cycles render preview to give instant feedback on how our lighting looks. For this scene, I wanted to create a nighttime atmosphere with a bright, fiery orange light coming from the entrance to the temple.
World Background
Because I would be lighting the Jungle Temple scene without world lighting, I set the world background color to black with 0 intensity.
Temple Entrance Lighting
Let’s start with the light coming from the temple entrance, as this is the light source with the most impact on the scene. I used a couple of light sources to create this lighting. The first is a mesh emitter at the end of the tunnel (out of sight of ...
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