6.6 Illumination and types of lights

Environment lights will be a great help as a starting point for any project,

but you will also need additional light sources. For instance, if you use

Eevee for rendering, a light source will be the best choice to replace an

HDR map since it can't cast shadows in real-time.

In Blender, you can create several types of lights with the SHIFT+A key

(Figure 6.21).

Figure 6.21 - Lights options

The list has options for lights includes:

Point: Emit light from a single point in space in all directions.