User Guide

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The Movie tab lets you set the number of times the movie loops and the volume of the movie’s sound. The details of
editing textures are covered in Chapter 12, “Manipulating Textures.”
Lighting Control palette
The Lighting Control palette is one of the most powerful. It consists of four different tabbed panes – Controls,
Settings, Quality, and Sun. These controls are used to specify and compute the parameters for the Atmosphere
lighting engine when it computes global illumination (radiosity) for the scene. Chapter 13, “Working with Lights,”
explains these controls in detail.
The Lighting Control palette groups all of the lighting parameters
Hierarchy palettes
Atmosphere has two hierarchy palettes: Scene Objects Hierarchy and Solid Objects Hierarchy. The palettes are similar,
but they contain very different sets of information. The Object Hierarchy palette includes a complete hierarchical list
of all the objects or primitives contained in a Solid Object. Each item is listed on a separate row with easy access to
settings for enabling and disabling visibility, locking, subtraction and scripts associated with the object.
The Object Hierarchy palette shows all the objects that make up a Solid Object.