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Contents

Tutorial: Setting up an opponent’s view ..................................................................523
Controlling a camera ...............................................................................................524
Aiming a camera .....................................................................................................526
Tutorial: Watching a rocket .....................................................................................526
Aligning cameras .....................................................................................................526
Tutorial: Seeing the dinosaur’s good side .................................................................528
Setting Camera Parameters ................................................................................................529
Lens settings and field of view .................................................................................529
Camera type and display options.............................................................................530
Environment ranges and clipping planes .................................................................530
Camera Correction modifier ....................................................................................531
Creating multi-pass camera effects ..........................................................................531
Using the Depth of Field effect ................................................................................531
Tutorial: Applying a Depth of Field effect to a row of windmills..............................533
Using the Motion Blur effect ....................................................................................534
Tutorial: Using a Motion Blur multi-pass camera effect ...........................................535
Summary ..........................................................................................................................536
Chapter 20: Using Lights and Basic Lighting Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Understanding the Basics of Lighting ................................................................................537
Natural and artificial light .......................................................................................537
A standard lighting method .....................................................................................538
Shadows ..................................................................................................................539
Getting to Know the Light Types ......................................................................................540
Default lighting .......................................................................................................540
Ambient light ..........................................................................................................541
Standard lights ........................................................................................................541
Photometric lights ...................................................................................................542
Creating and Positioning Light Objects .............................................................................543
Transforming lights .................................................................................................543
Viewing lights and shadows in the viewport ............................................................543
Listing lights............................................................................................................544
Placing highlights ....................................................................................................545
Tutorial: Lighting the snowman’s face .....................................................................545
Viewing a Scene from a Light ............................................................................................546
Light viewport controls ...........................................................................................546
Tutorial: Lighting a lamp .........................................................................................548
Altering Light Parameters ..................................................................................................548
General parameters .................................................................................................549
The Intensity/Color/Attenuation rollout ..................................................................550
Spotlight and directional light parameters ...............................................................550
Advanced Effects .....................................................................................................551
Shadow parameters .................................................................................................551
Optimizing lights ....................................................................................................552
Manipulating Hotspot and Falloff cones ..................................................................552
Photometric light parameters ..................................................................................552

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