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Choosing shading modes

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Choosing shading modes

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- [Voiceover] We can control how a viewport displays so that we can see our objects in wireframe, or in a shaded view. We could, for example, superimpose wireframes over shading, and we could choose to view with lighting and shadows, or not. Let's look at how to control the shading modes. So that we can see this a little bit more clearly, let's create a ground plane here underneath that plant. I'll go over to the create panel, and back up to standard primitives, and I've got a plane. I can just click and drag here in the perspective view to create that plane, and then right click to exit. Maybe change its color. Go over to the modify panel, and just change it to a different color. I've got a little swatch here, and set that to neutral grey. We can also turn the grid off here to make it a little bit easier to see. That's the G key on the keyboard. Now let's look at our shading modes. First and foremost, this is a shaded view here, and we can control whether we want that to be a high…

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