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title: "Lighting"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/111738962/Lighting"
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The Lighting Render Element stores direct lighting and diffuse color information.

## <span style="color: #000000">**Overview**</span>

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## **Attributes**

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## **Common uses**

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The Lighting Render Element is useful for changing the appearance of direct illumination after rendering in a compositing or image editing application. Below are a couple of examples of possible uses.




## **Compositing Formula**

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[vrayRE_Raw_Light ](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VMAYA/pages/111738950)x[ vrayRE_Diffuse](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VMAYA/pages/111739040) = **vrayRE_Lighting**


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