Lighting in Godot for Beginners

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Learn how to light beautiful scenes in this Godot tutorial. We'll be lighting an indoor and an outdoor scene and we'll even turn day into night!

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● Docs on Lighting: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/lights_and_shadows.html

● More on GI Bake Modes: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/global_illumination/introduction_to_global_illumination.html#which-global-illumination-mode-should-i-use-on-meshes-and-lights

● HDDAGI: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/86267

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🎵 Mediterranean View - Everet Almond (YouTube Audio Library)

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Lighting is powerful
1:02 Zenva
1:55 Making the scene dark
3:05 The 3 light nodes
5:38 Environment light
7:40 Lighting as an artform
9:15 3-point lighting
10:27 Indoor - Adding lights
12:12 Emissive surfaces
15:46 Outdoor - Adding lights
18:15 The secret sauce...
20:28 Global illumination
22:50 Cheat 1: Environment light
23:20 Cheat 2: Reflection probes
24:15 Cheat 3: The real GI stuff
25:46 SDF GI
27:14 Voxel GI
29:34 Lightmap GI
35:25 Baking the example scenes
36:11 Turning Daytime into Nighttime
37:47 Screen-space effects
38:28 Outro