Hold down the mouse button and slide your mouse
to the left to take the value down to 0, and then release the mouse button. You??™ll
see the VIPER window update, to make the planet appear black.What you did
was tell the surface not to receive any light from the scene, essentially turning off
the lights for that surface.
Note
10. Now, restore the Diffuse value to 100%
and continue.
You??™ll see various surface settings
appear throughout the commands on
the right, on the Basic tab.
11. Click the T button to the right of the
Color control to open the Texture panel
for the planet object (Figure 3.17).
Note
If the T button to the right of the Color control is dimmed, uncheck the Edit Nodes
box located immediately above it.
You may think to yourself,???But Dan, I didn??™t set up any lights for this scene, so how
can the object receive or not receive light???? Remember, Grasshopper: Every default
LightWave scene has one camera and one light.Ah ha!
It doesn??™t matter with a simple ???scene??? like this, but for more complicated scenes, you
might want to disable VIPER while rendering the frame, then turn it back on before
continuing.
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