Add lighting

Lights are independent sources of illumination in your scene. They can be used to create highlights, dramatic lighting, or emphasize important parts of your models. Unlike the environment light or IBL, lights are objects within Showcase, and can be positioned, edited, grouped, hidden or added to alternatives. They are represented in your scene with 3D “grips.”

Note

In Hardware Rendering, lights do not cast shadows, while in Ray Tracing mode, lights can cast shadows based on their properties.

The following topics describe how to add lighting to your scene.

Create a light
Modify a light
Light properties dialog box
Position lights
Associating lights and geometry
Hiding and deleting lights and grips

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