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    Lighting

    Learn about the Light Editor, its standard lights, as well as area and object lights, and using HDR Light Studio when raytracing in VRED.

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    • Lighting (Video)
    • Lights (How-To)
    • Lighting (Reference)
    • Loading and Repathing Lightmaps (Python)

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