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Lightscape Preparation File Views Panel 599
Lightscape. Windows also allow light to enter, but
other m aterial attributes are used for filtering the
lightasitpassesthroughthewindow.
When you create your scene, you need to make
sure that there are surfaces for all of y our windows
and openings.
The exported LP file uses the a material to mark
whether a surface is a window or opening. Create
a material that you assign only to openings. Make
sure that materials assigned to windows are only
used by surfaces that are windows. Light might
shine through surfaces that incorrectly have a
material used to marked a window or opening.
Inter face
Windows—Select all of the materials you used for
your windows. When exporting a face, it will be
marked as a window if any of the selected materials
is assig ned to the face.
Select None—Removes selection from all materials
in the Windows list box.
Openings —Select the material you used for your
openings. Faces that use this material wi ll be
marked as openings.
Lightscape Preparation File V iews
Pa nel
The active view is always stored in the preparation
file. This p anel allows you to choose additional
views that are saved in Lig htscape view files.
Normally , the additional views are saved in the
same directory as the preparation file and are
named for their cameras.
This panel is unavailable if no cameras are in the
scene.
Interfa ce
Save to File—Displaysthefilenamethatwillbe
used to save the view for the last camera selected.
You can enter a file name if you don’t want to use
the default.