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Controlling viewport quality

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Controlling viewport quality

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- [Instructor] Even though I have a light in my scene, I won't see the lighting in the viewport unless I enable the viewport quality settings. I'm going to maximize this perspective view with alt+w, and up here in the viewport menu we have several items. We have the viewport type, and then we have the shading type and then we have some shading options. The middle menu here is the shading type. It's defaulted to standard, which is a mode that should work on pretty much any hardware, and things like lights and shadows are disabled. We can enable lights and shadows just by going up here and clicking up here on this menu, and choosing High Quality. And it might take a moment to kick in. Also, High Quality is subjective and it's completely dependent upon your hardware. If you have really good video hardware, or a great graphics card, then you'll see much higher quality in the viewport than if you had just a basic graphics card. We should be seeing shadows, except for the fact that when you…

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