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Right-click within the 3D Viewer and choose 3D Options > Lighting from the contextual menu.
A 3D scene using default lights (top), and the same scene with lighting turned on (bottom).
TIP: Attempting to load a Light node into a viewer all by itself will result in an empty
scene, with nothing illuminated. To see the effects of lights, you must view the Merge
3D node the light is connected to.
Similar to lights, the default 3D Viewer has shadows turned off. To see shadows cast from the
lighting you’ve created, you must turn them on.
To toggle shadows rendering within a 3D scene:
Right-click within the 3D viewer and choose 3D Options > Shadows from the contextual menu.
Enabling shadows will automatically turn on lighting, if it is not already turned on.
A 3D scene with shadows enabled along with the lights.
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