

The methods and language various render engines use may change, but the principles are going to be the same. While this tutorial is geared specifically toward Daz Studio, the concepts and principles taught here will carry over to any program.

Lighting is a difficult topic that can be difficult to fully grasp at first, yet improving your knowledge of it will vastly improve the quality and realism of your work. Tired of wondering why your renders don’t look as realistic and professional as those of other 3D artists or the sample pictures featured in the marketplace where you purchased the model? If so, this 3D scene lighting tutorial may be exactly what you have been looking for.

Renders can be done by leveraging either the 3Delight render engine, or the Iray render engine, both of which ship for free along with Daz Studio, or with a variety of purchasable add-on render engine plugins for Daz Studio from various vendors and companies. Daz Studio is a 3D scene creation and rendering application used to produce images as well as video. Daz Studio is a software application developed and offered for free by Daz 3D.
