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Animate light

Animate light - Inventor Tutorial

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Animate light

- Lights can be animated in a variety of ways. You can animate a lighting style, lights within a style, or local lights. The controls for animating are very similar to the options for creating lights. So if we look up at the top here, we can see that under Animate we have an option for light. But before we can do that, just like before with cameras or any of these other options, we need to actually create the light that we want to animate. So we are going to begin by creating what we call a local light, so I'm going to select Local Light, and again just like before, essentially we need to place a target in a position and the type of light that we want to create. This time what we are going to do is we are going to place a spotlight on the hatch so we are going to kind of light up that just to add a little more emphasis to it. So we're going to create a spotlight, so I'm going to select my type of spot, I'm going to do my placement which my target is going to be the very top of this…

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