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USD Lights

USD light tools are a powerful addition to Fusion's USD toolset. They allow for greater control and flexibility when creating and manipulating lighting in your USD scenes. There are six lights available in the USD toolset, they are:


uCylinder Light [uCL]


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The USD Cylinder light


uCylinder Light Node Introduction

A uCylinder light is geometric light that has length and diameter, similar to fluorescent light. This light shows an onscreen control. Translation and rotation of the control place this in the scene.

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Inspector


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The USD Cylinder Light controls


Controls Tab

The Controls tab is used to set the color and brightness of the uCylinder light. The position, direction, and scale of the light source is controlled in the Transform tab.

Color

Use this standard Color control to set the color of the light.

 

uCylinder Light [uCL]uDisk Light [uDi]uDistant Light [uDL]uDome Light [uDo]uRectangle Light [uRL]uSphere Light [uSL]The Common Controls