Looking closely at Figure 4.1, you can work your way down the panel, using the following
explanations as your guide. At the very top of the panel, you can quickly clear all lights by
clicking the Clear All Lights button. Be careful with this, as it clears all the lights in your
scene, except for the single default distant light. If you??™ve changed the default light, clicking
this option resets it. Next to the Clear All Lights button, you??™ll see an information display
called Lights in Scene.
Another interesting part of LightWave when it comes to lighting is the Global Illumination
option. This is an important area of your 3D lighting setup.However, you won??™t find Global
Illumination settings in the Lights panel but in the Render Globals panel.We??™ll cover these
settings just after the basic lighting information, later in this chapter.
Note
Light Color
The color of the light you use is important and useful in your images and animations
because it can help set tone, mood, and feeling. No light is ever purely white, and it??™s up
to you to change LightWave??™s default pure-white light color. The color selector works the
same as the other color selectors in LightWave.
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