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Setting viewport display options

Setting viewport display options - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting viewport display options

- [Instructor] We've got a basic physical sun and sky for exterior daylight, and it looks pretty good in the ART renderer, but the viewport here is not showing that lighting, and if we want to display lighting in the viewport, we have some options, so let's take a look at those. I'll maximize this viewport by clicking in it and using the keyboard shortcut, which is Alt + W, to maximize that view. And we have the shading menu up here, which is defaulted to Standard, and we have a couple of options here at the top. Performance Mode just turns off all lighting and shading. High Quality Mode tends to give you an approximation of what that rendering will look like, but without any global illumination, it's going to be problematic. And we can see her we're actually getting a highlight on the surface of this reservoir or body of water here because of the position of the sun, and we're getting some illumination over here on these buildings, but because there's no ambient light, it's really…

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