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Render Fun Tutorial 6: Lamps, Night Interiors and the Light Mixer

17 October 2026 · 3 min read · Ufuk Şen

Daylight is only half the story. This lesson lights a bedroom at night with lamps, tunes their light and mixes every light of the scene, even after the render is done.

Adding a lamp from Render Fun’s Light panel

Add lamps

With only two pendants on, all the light comes from one corner. The "Interior · night" ready scene notices that and suggests adding lamps. In the Light panel, under "Add a lamp", choose a point, spot or panel lamp, then click the ceiling in SketchUp wherever a lamp should go; each click places a lamp that points down. The lamps are hidden in the render, so only their light shows.

"Add a lamp" in the Light panel: point, spot and panel lamps

Spot lamps above the bed bring the bedroom to life at night

Power, beam, colour and size

Right-click a lamp in SketchUp to set its power and the width of its beam.
Paint the lamp with SketchUp’s Paint Bucket to change its colour; the library has ready light colours from candle warm to daylight cool.
Lamp size makes all lamps bigger: shadows get softer and the amount of light stays the same.
Light distribution shapes the beam: a narrow spot, a downlight, a wide flood, a wall washer or the maker’s own IES file.
Surfaces can give light too: give a lampshade the Light kind with its own power.

The light mixer

The Mixer lists every light of the scene: the sun, the sky and each group of lamps. Dim a group, boost another or switch one off; it works at once and even after a finished render. "Put everything back" returns all lights to how they were, and Glow in the Colour panel adds a soft halo around bright lights, like a real camera lens.