26 L
IGHTS
P
ALETTE
What It Does
The Lights palette displays the lights in your project, and allows you to:
• Customize the lights.
• Turn each light on or off.
• Move the lights around.
• Reposition a light to the current camera position.
• Render shadows for individual lights.
Lights palette
fields
Control
Type
What it does
Notes
Sorted by
dropdown Lets you specify whether to list lights by their name or in a cus-
tom order. To use a custom order, drag the lights up and down
the list.
button
Lets you reposition the selected light to the current camera
position.
Light
>
Color
| Specular
swatch
Sets the specular color of the light (the “shiny” color of the
light).
Defaults to white.
Light
>
Color
| Diffuse
swatch
Sets the diffuse color of the light (the “surface” color of the
light).
Defaults to white.
Light
>
General
| Fixed To
dropdown Sets what the light is fixed to:
• Scene (default) — the light is fixed to the model, for example
if a light is set at the model's back, it always points at the
model's back, no matter how you move the view.
• Camera — the light is fixed to a camera view, for example you
can have a light always shining from above the camera, allow-
ing you to move the model around and cast light on different
areas.
Light
>
General
| On
checkbox
Whether the light is on or off.
