Light Editor

Light Editor


Reset - restores all the parameters to their original values.

Help - displays help for Light Specification.

Ambient Light - Ambient light is light with no particular direction and all part s of all objects appear equally bright. This ambient light can be switched on or off.

On - switches on the ambient light

Off - switches off the ambient light

Light Selector - Selects the target light for setting attributes. Maximum number o f lights that can be set are 4. This menu can be used to select one of these lights for which attributes are to be set.

Light 1 (This is selected in the default state)
Light 2
Light 3
Light 4

Light State - turns on/off the currently selected light.

On- switches on the currently selected light.

Off- switches off the currently selected light.

Light Type - selects the type of the currently selected light.

Directional Light - makes the currently selected light unidirectional. Unidi rectional light denotes a light where all the rays are parallel and point in the same direction.

Bi-Directional Light - makes the currently selected light bi-directional. This m eans that the light is made up of sets of parallel rays where each set contains a ray pointing in a given direc tion and another ray pointing in exactly the opposite direction. If the object starts to appear dark, then it can be made brighter by making the light bi-directional.

Light Color - selects the method for setting the color of the currently selected light.

Slider

Palette

Light Transform Editor -If this turned on, a menu for setting the direction of lig ht appears on the screen.

Close - loses the menu panel.



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