Hi, I’m trying out the trial ver of 3.1. There may be an obvious thing I’m missing but I seem to adjust the realtrime lights. I go to the Light menu, I can turn on lights, move them around, but nothing I do has any effect on the lights in the document, (defalt setup).
I’m using a PC running Windows XP, 2 gigs mem. nvida .
Any help is greatly appreciated, I’ve been looking the online manual but so far haven’t figured it out.
Thanks… -Jeff99
You’re most likely also using one of the MatCap materials. The default material, for example, is the RedWax material, which is MatCap.
All MatCap materials use light maps. In other words, the lighting is baked into the material, which means it won’t respond to changes made in the Light palette. To use the Light palette, you’ll need to use one of the many materials that’s not a MatCap.
Yes that was it! Thanks so much, I knew it had to be some small thing I was overlooking.
-Jeff