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Using the Light Explorer

Using the Light Explorer - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using the Light Explorer

- [Narrator] If you have lots of lights in your scene, then you can utilize a dedicated scene explorer to manage those lights and it's called the light explorer. Now the light explorer does not play well with the active shade window so I can't preview in the active shade window while I make changes in the light explorer. So I want to set up my viewport to emulate the lighting as best as possible. From the viewport label menu, I'll click on standard and go to lighting and shadows and illuminate with scene lights. Also, go back into that menu which is now labeled user defined, and go to lighting and shadows and enable shadows. And most importantly, because I have so many lights in this scene, I need to enable an important setting. Because by default, I'm only going to see four lights in the viewport so this setting is kind of buried. We're going to back into this user defined menu to per-view presets and in the viewport setting and preference dialogue, set the rendering level from basic…

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