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Although materials, lights, effects, and render styles cannot be edited in archives, once dragged into the scene’s
palette, they can be edited and saved with the scene in an NWF file, or published as an NWD file.
You can save your own edits to materials into an NWP file format. See “Organize and Manage Materials” on
page 355 for more information on how to do this.
The User Archives
The user archives allow you to save your own edited materials, lights, effects, and render styles for use in other
scenes.
The User archives are accessible from each of the Materials, Lighting, Effects, and Rendering tabs. On each of
the tabs, the archives are named My Materials, My Lighting, My Effects, and My Render Styles, respectively.
To manage user archives
■ To save a material, light, effect, or render style to a user archive for use in other scenes, in the right pane,
drag that item from the scene’s palette onto the respective user archive.
■ To create a new subfolder in a user archive, right-click the archive, and click New Directory on the shortcut
menu. You can rename this new folder by right-clicking it, and clicking Rename on the shortcut menu. You
can add as many nested subfolders as you want.
■ To save a user archive to disk, right-click it, and click Save Archives on the shortcut menu. This saves any
modified archives.
NOTE You will also be prompted to save any modified archives when you close Autodesk Navisworks.
■ To remove a material, light, effect, or render style from the respective user archive, right-click the item to be
removed, and click Delete on the shortcut menu.
■ To remove a subfolder you’ve created from the respective user archive, right-click the folder to be removed,
and click Delete on the shortcut menu.
NOTE You cannot delete any default user archive folders.
To add archives
■ To download an archive from the Lightworks-User website, in the left pane, right-click any archive, and click
Download Archive on the shortcut menu. Then follow the instructions given on the site.
■ To import a downloaded archive into Presenter, in the left pane, right-click any archive, and click Import
Archive on the shortcut menu. Use the standard Open dialog box to select the LWA file to import.
To delete an added archive
1 Right-click the archive, and click Delete Archive on the shortcut menu.
2 Click Yes.
Photo-Realistic Scene Rendering
You can render directly in the Scene View by clicking Render at the bottom of the Presenter window at any time.
You can export rendered scenes as images, and use them in presentations, on websites, in print, and so on. You
can also export animated AVI presentations and instructional movies, in which the animated objects move in
photo-realistically rendered scenes.
NOTE The larger the image size of the exported animation, the higher the resolution. However, this significantly
increases render times. If you are creating high-resolution images, it is best to use a separate machine to render.
Once you have set up and rendered a scene, you can additionally create animation in that scene. The rendering
that you have set up will be applied to each frame of the animation.
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