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Light and Shading

Lighting

The starting lighting setup to use when this is opened in Acrobat Reader.

Unchanged

When set to Unchanged this button will not change the lighting at all. It will leave the 3D View in its current lighting mode when this button is pushed. But having this, and shading, set to Unchanged it will allow the ability to trigger multiple animations using multiple buttons for a 3D view, without having them visibily change the look of the rendering.

It would be advised to have a separate button to change just the lighting or shading for your 3D View if desired.

Lights From File

This will use the lights from your Scene directly in the PDF. It currently supports the following

• Omni Lights
  • Color
  • Intensity
• Spot Lights
  • Color
  • Intensity
  • Inner Angle
  • Outer Angle

None

No lights

White

White lights

Day

Day lights

Night

Night lights

Hard

Hard lights

Primary

Red, Green and Blue lights

Blue

Just a blue light

Red

Just a red light

Cube

Cube lighting

CAD

Some good default lighting useful for CAD files

HeadLamp

A single light that looks directly at the objects.

Shading

These settings are faily self explanitory so there is no further documentation other than the following...

Unchanged

When set to Unchanged this button will not change the shading at all. It will leave the 3D View in its current shading mode when this button is pushed. But having this, and lighting, set to Unchanged it will allow the ability to trigger multiple animations using multiple buttons for a 3D view, without having them visibily change the look of the rendering.

It would be advised to have a separate button to change just the lighting or shading for your 3D View if desired.