Adjust your monitor!	Basics of lighting theory	Qualities of light
Color lighting	Three-point lights	Types of lights and what they do
Using shadows	Shadows and light properties	Light Linking
Light Matching		Main

Types of Lights

Ambient

• Can shine light everywhere uniformly.
• Good for filling the scene with overall light but do not over use.

Directional

• Shines light in the direction of the arrow. Placement does not matter unlike all the other lights. Think of this light as a ray of light from the sun.
• Good for directional fill lights in an outdoor scene.
• Not very effective with indoor lighting with shadows turned on.

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Point

• Shines light in all directions (much like the sun).
• Good for acting as a light from a light bulb or a candle.

Spot

• Behaves just like a real-world spotlight.
• Good for imitating beams of headlights and focused lamps (lamps with shades).
• Cone angle
• Penumbra angle

Area

• Emits light from a rectangular are instead of a point source.
• Great for recreating light from rectangular shaped sources (ceiling lights, row lights, etc.).
• Note: Size (scale) of this light affects how much intensity is given off. The larger the size, the more light it will give off. Example: if an area light has a scale of 3x3 and the intensity of 1, it will give off three times the amount of light compared to an areas light of 1x1 with an intensity of 1.

Volume

• Light is emitted according to a volume shape that falls off from the center to the boundary of the volume shape.
• Acts very much like a point light but is limited in the area it illuminates according to its volume shape.