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Using the Light Explorer

Using the Light Explorer - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using the Light Explorer

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- [Instructor] Once you have a few lights in your scene you can speed up your workflow with the light explorer. This is a version of the scene explorer with particular settings to display only lights and their key parameters. Unfortunately scene explorer does not play well with active shade. This applies to all of the scene explorer variations. Such as layer explorer and light explorer. If active shade is running, the scene explorer does not update. So effectively we can't use them both at the same time. Therefore to see the effects of making changes in the light explorer, we want to set up the view port, so that it matches the production rendering as closely as possible. And we do that using the per view presets. As we discussed earlier in the course, in the per view settings, we just want to make sure that the rendering level is advanced and we are illuminating with scene lights, unlimited lights. Before making any…

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