Lighting a Room

_{Modeling credit Giorgio Luciano}

Arnold is capable of producing awesome interior renders. This tutorial shows a series of alternate ways to light an interior room from outside. We will also look at alternative ways to light the scene to reduce render times and noise.

The scene file can be downloaded here (modeling credit: Giorgio Luciano).

Note: All of the HDR maps used in this tutorial can be downloaded here.

Ambient Occlusion	Area Lights	Emissive Geometry	Physical Sky	Sky	SkyDome Light

The various lighting techniques that we will be covering are as follows:

• Rendering with Ambient Occlusion
• Area Lights
• Emissive Geometry
• Lighting with the Physical Sky
• Lighting with the Sky
• Lighting with the Sky Dome Light