Blender 4.0 Lighting Basics: HDRIs, Sky Texture & Cycles Setup

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Part 5 of a beginner course on lighting a scene before materials: why HDR/EXR beats JPEG, rotating an HDRI, and using the procedural Sky Texture. Then sets Cycles GPU, noise threshold, sample cap, OptiX denoising, bounce limits, and AgX with a contrast look.