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Figure 4.2
You can add lights
directly in Layout
under the Items tab.
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Clone Lights
Besides adding lights, you can clone lights. Cloning a light creates an exact duplicate of a
selected light. This includes the light??™s color, intensity, position, rotation, and so on. Any
parameter you??™ve set will be cloned. Cloning lights is just as easy as adding lights, but often
good to do after you??™re sure of your existing light??™s settings.You don??™t want to clone a light
20 times, only to realize that you forgot to change the color! You??™d need to make changes
to 20 lights. However, should you have to make changes to many lights at once, you can
quickly select the lights to change in the Scene Editor. Figure 4.5 shows two lights in the
Scene Editor selected at once.
Figure 4.5 If you have one light, two, or twenty, you can use the Scene Editor to edit variables
for those lights all at once.
Note
To clone a light, first select the light to be cloned in Layout, and then select the Clone button
under the Items tab in the Add category. Enter the number of clones (copies) of the
light you want in the pop-up panel, and click OK or press Enter.
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