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Using the light explorer - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2022 Essential Training
Using the light explorer
- 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 viewport 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 changes to our…
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Interactive production rendering8m 18s
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Creating photometric lights4m 7s
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Adjusting light intensity and color5m 53s
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Setting exposure control6m 27s
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Adjusting light shape8m 47s
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Controlling spotlight parameters7m 15s
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Using the light explorer2m 24s
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Illuminating with an environment color6m 31s
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Illuminating with an HDRI environment7m 10s
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Separating environment from background5m 39s
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Creating a sun and sky10m 37s
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