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title: "Luminance"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VBLD/117637479/Luminance"
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This page provides information about the Luminance utility texture in V-Ray for Blender. Overview The V-Ray Luminance node wraps a color texture and outputs its luminance. UI Path:  ||V-Ray Node Editor|| >  Shader  >  Add  >  Texture Utilities  >  V-Ray Luminance Properties   Input  – Input socket for a texture map. This property can also be edited from the Node menu.