After you set the parent-to-child relationships between lights and surfaces, you can set specific surface lighting properties. You control a surface's lighting and adjust the surface's specular highlight in the Surface menu. To access the Surface menu, double-click the selected surface in the schematic, or follow the tab population rules for the Object menu (see Populating Menu Tabs of Selected Objects).
(a) Shine field (b) Lighting box (c) Specular Highlight colour box (d) Wireframe button (e) Flip Normals button
The Surface controls that relate to lights are described as follows.
Motion Blur buttonEnable to exclude the selected object from the global motion blur effect. See Blurring a Single Object.
Wireframe buttonYou can remove some lighting effects for a selected surface by converting surfaces to a wireframe depiction of the surface. See Converting to Wireframe.
Flip Normals buttonFlips the normals of the surface so that light is applied to the opposite side of the surface. See Flipping a Surface's Normals.
Shine fieldDisplays the intensity of the specular highlight. See Adjusting Specular Highlights.
Lighting boxApplies diffuse or ambient lighting to a surface. See Applying Incidental Light Reflection.
Specular Highlight colour boxClick the colour pot and use the colour picker to change the specular colour.
The specular highlight is visible only if Shading is enabled in the Setup menu and if shine is greater than 0. See Adjusting Specular Highlights.
