From the course: Learning 3ds Max 2021
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Adjusting light parameters - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: Learning 3ds Max 2021
Adjusting light parameters
- [Instructor] In the previous movie we multiplied the photometric intensity of our lights so that the image is correctly exposed. Now let's explore the shape and color of the photometric light. Select either one of those lights, go back over to the modify panel and we'll see a rollout labeled shape/area shadows. The default type of light is point and in the view port it looks like the light has some volume, it's being displayed as if it were a sphere. But in reality, it's an infinitesimally small point light source, a point has a size of zero and we get these perfectly hard shadows in the view port as a result. So let's change this, right click in the perspective view to give it focus without losing the current selection. And then in the shape/area shadows rollout, switch the shape over to sphere. And we see slightly softer shadows in the view port. To see this more clearly, let's increase the radius of the sphere, bring…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.