Lighting the Spider Bot
We’ll be rendering the Spider Bot with Cycles. For this project, I wanted bright, dynamic lighting to show off the character’s shiny surface. I accomplished this with a mix of mesh lights and lamp objects. Since I wouldn’t be using world lighting, I set the color of the world background to black in the World tab of the Properties editor, and I set its intensity to 0 before continuing.
The principal lighting for the Spider Bot comes from the right from a point-lamp object with an orange color and high strength, as shown in Figure 13-18. This lamp is supplemented by a mesh light overhead that is composed of multiple planes with a light-emitting material. To create this light, I added a new plane object and moved it above ...
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