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Lights and Cameras

“Little Village Far, Far Away”

Lights and cameras are scene objects that simulate their real-world counterparts.

Lights provide illumination for the geometry of a scene: they can light the scene from

“offstage,” or, with a little extra work, they can appear within the scene itself. Standard lights

are simple and easy to use. Photometric lights are more complex, but provide a physically

accurate model of real-world lighting. The Daylight and Sunlight systems create outdoor

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