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The Materials, Lighting, Effects, and Rendering tabs are divided into
two panes. The left pane contains the
archives (page 548) and the right pane
contains the palette, which defines what materials, lighting, effects, and render
styles are used in the scene. Archives are shown in a tree structure and are
defined in the LightWorks Archive (.lwa) format.
Model Appearance
While Presenter can be used for photo-realistic renderings, it can also be
used for OpenGL interactive rendering. Once you’ve set up the scene with
Presenter, you can view the materials and lights in Autodesk Navisworks in
real time.
For more information, see
Control Model Appearance (page 317).
To toggle the Presenter window
■ Choose Home tab ➤ Tools panel ➤ Presenter
.
Ribbon: Home tab ➤ Tools panel ➤ Presenter
Menu: Classic user interface: Tools ➤ Presenter
Use the Presenter Archives
There are three predefined archives that are installed with Presenter:
■ The Recommended archives contain materials, lighting, effects, and
rendering styles that are recommended for most users. These include
materials, lights, and effects that can be seen during interactive navigation
in Autodesk Navisworks and can be fully rendered with OpenGL. Of course,
they will look better when rendered photorealistically.
■ Additional materials, light studios, effects, and render styles are available
in the Standard archives. These include materials that cannot be fully
reproduced using OpenGL and therefore will not be seen properly in
interactive mode, or until a full photorealistic render is done.
■ Any materials, lights, effects, and render styles from any archive can be
used as a template starter for your own definitions, but the Templates
archives contain instances of each type of material, light, effect, and render
style, giving you quicker access.
TIP Additional LWA archives can be downloaded from Lightworks-User, and added
to the Materials, Lighting, Effects, and Rendering tabs.
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