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title: "Lighting"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VRAYNUKE/110625499/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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UI Path: ||Toolbar|| >** V-Ray Menu icon > Render > VRayRenderElement > Type: Lighting**

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## **Properties**

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The Lighting render element has no controllable properties.

 

![image](media://9194132e-ef4d-459f-a7b0-629edd26f642)

 

## **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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[Light Raw](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VRAYNUKE/pages/110625527) x[ Diffuse](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VRAYNUKE/pages/110625511) = **Lighting**

 

![image](media://a6a95ab2-5ac0-4df9-8b60-5fe46e1d9bd5)