From the File drop-down menu, select Clear Scene.
2. From the Scene Editor drop-down menu, select Open. Because of the design of the
Scene Editor, you can have multiple instances of the panel open at the same time;
to do so, simply select New Instance. Figure 2.34 shows the Scene Editor panel.
Figure 2.34 A new instance of the LightWave Scene Editor is created, and the panel appears.
3. On the left of the panel are the items in your scene, currently just one camera and
one light. Figure 2.35 shows that by clicking the small mark in front of an item,
you can expand it to see its channels.
Figure 2.35 The left side of the Scene Editor contains the items you want to control.
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4. At the top left of the Scene Editor are three tabs: Items, Surfaces, and Channels.
Click the Surfaces tab, and the list changes, giving you access to any surfaces in
your scene.
5. After you??™ve selected certain surfaces to work with, you can select them on the
right and make changes. This is useful for quickly seeing and editing all of your
surfaces outside of LightWave Surface Editor.
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