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The preview plane ripples slightly showing the small wave displacement.
5 Light the scene to prepare it for rendering later in the lesson:
Select Create > Lights > Directional Light. Maya creates a directional
light called directionalLight1 at the center of the grid.
Open the Attribute Editor and in the Directional Light Attributes
section of the directionalLightShape1 tab, change Intensity to 2 to
make the light brighter.
Click the directionalLight1 tab and rotate the light as follows to direct
the light rays onto the ocean. Rotate: -100 42 20
Modifying ocean attributes
In the next steps, you will modify ocean shader settings to make the waves
bigger.
To modify attributes for the ocean shader
1 Render the current frame to see what the ocean looks like before you
modify the ocean shader attributes. On the Status line, click the render
current frame icon.
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