Blender Secrets - More Realistic Renders with Light Textures

Using textured lights is a great way to add more realism to your renders, making them look less like computer images and more like real life.

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[TheCGEssentials]

Wow - I had no clue this was a thing! Thanks! :)

[jjj-slok]

Holy sh*t!! I''ve been asking people who use blender how to do something like this, everybody just told me "use/try UV project", but it didn't work... (maybe i didn't explain well what i wanted)... But thank you so much! My struggle is over.

[izo]

an hour of searching tuts and this video told me exactly what i needed in under a minute, thank you so much for your help! You rock!

[Covingsworth]

Had no idea you could do this! Thanks for this!!

[gatofuji]

Just to point out that you have to choose Cycles Render.
(At first, I was missing something: I added a Spotlight but when in the Shader Editor I couldn't find the Use Nodes option to click in, because I had the Eevee render selected.)

[potaterjim]

_THANK_ you! Coming from unity, this is an extremely simple and effective tool, it's called a light cookie. Yet trying to google an equivalent for blender, you'd think no one has ever heard of it! Do these people just not want flashlights at virtually no extra rendering cost?? This made my day

[Em-eprz]

Thank you for these videos! You are an incredible teacher, always giving just the right amount of detail.

[digital]

You can also fake this in Eevee using a two sided plane so it's invisible to the cam from both directions but not to the light also gives you a way to fake IES lights but you can't get ( least as far as i can figure out) color but it works great for gobos like this :). I really need to get off my ass to start doing some of the tutorials i have been wanting to make lol. It's things like this that inspire me

[brandonneverdies]

Excellent, straight to the point. Thank you!

[designerlee]

This is one of the greatest thing I ever seen!! thanks!!

[michaelsmusicinstruments]

Great, I will create a light library with it. I downloaded 3.0 alpha and beta to find the Light use notes option, until I realized that this option does not exist in Eevee :-)), it is for Cycles render.

[yass_queeen_engery]

love for his channel is too infinite🖤🖤🖤

[JuanSanchez-kdnn]

Increíble! No lo sabía. Gracias!!! Amo tus vídeos

[StudioWerkz]

I will always find a reason to use this technique as long as I'm alive

[speedzification]

Very practical tip, thanks for sharing

[ignisspiritus]

This doesnt work for me at all. I've followed the video and did everything and nothing shows up. The spotlight is facing a white plain but the video isn't appearing.

[Fae-Fey]

Can this be used to create those "god rays" when combined with volumetrics?

[waitingforrender]

i have the 3.1 and in shader editor dont see use node box
is something change?

[ageofgar]

How am I not subscribed to this yet !?

[Philipeace]

insane I had to watch it twice to get where the secret sauce was but it is indeed very good secret sauce (: