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TIP To turn shadows on or off for multiple lights, select the lights and then
use the
Light Lister on page 5000.
You can set an object to not cast or not receive shadows. By default,
objects do both. See Object Properties on page 305.
To control the display of light objects:
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On the Display panel, on the Hide By Category rollout, turn on
Lights.
All light objects in the scene disappear, but the lighting itself is unchanged.
Light objects can cast light whether or not their display is turned off. The
Zoom Extents commands are affected by whether light icons are displayed
or not. When lights are displayed,
Zoom Extents on page 7594 and Zoom
Extents All
on page 7588 includes the lights in the zoom.
TIP To control whether a light casts light in the scene, you can use its On
toggle, or you can toggle its Renderable property on the light's
Object
Properties dialog
on page 305.
To change a light's parameters:
1 Select the light.
TIP Lights can be hard to select by clicking. Use the keyboard shortcut H to
select the light by name.
2
Open the Modify panel.
3 Change the light's parameters in the General Parameters rollout and other
rollouts available for that light.
To position a light so it highlights a face:
1 Make sure the viewport you plan to render is active, and that the object
you want to highlight is visible in it.
The result of Place Highlight depends on what is visible in the viewport.
2 Select a light object.
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