This means that VIPER is limited in what it can show. However, it is very useful
for most of your surfacing needs, such as specifying color and texture. As you adjust your
surfaces, VIPER shows you what??™s happening and how the surface will look in your scene,
without the need to re-render the whole scene. VIPER is available in Layout only.
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Exercise 3.1 Using VIPER with Basic Surfacing
To get an idea of how useful VIPER is, try this quick tutorial.
1. Start Layout, or if it??™s already running, save any work you??™ve completed so far and
choose Clear Scene from the File drop-down menu (keyboard equivalent: Shift+n).
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2. Choose Load Scene from the Load drop-down and open Planet_Anim.lws
(located in the Gradients folder, inside the Scenes folder provided to you with
the NewTek LightWave v9 content). You??™ll see a green blob.
3. Press F5 to open the Surface Editor panel.
You??™ll use VIPER to preview changes made in the Surface Editor, which must
be open for VIPER to render and display the surfaces you set.
You don??™t always need to clear the scene before loading a scene. Simply loading a
scene overrides your current scene.
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