Lights Tab
Lights Tab

Light Balance
Sets the dominant source of ambient brightness for the image, the sun and sky, or lamps and other light fixtures.
When this value is modified, a new rendering has to be generated, the resume rendering function will not incorporate the change.
Ambient Light
Ambient Light is the overall brightness of the image, solved during rendering. A lower ambient value will produce more contrast in the rendered image, higher ambient values will flatten the rendering. See: Ambient Light
Settings
- Use Watts instead of Lumens for Lamp Units - The unit method for lighting, by default is Lumens.
- Use Monte Carlo reflections - helps resolve small blurred reflections with bright spots (slow)
- Use Camera lights - A special lighting condition that will provide illumination when no other lighting is available.
- See Also: Camera Light
Use Indirect Lighting (reflected light) - See Also: Indirect Lighting
- None - Light bouncing off of surfaces is not included in the lighting solution for the rendering
- Standard or Gather - Standard is faster than Gather and will produce essential the same solution
- # bounces (1-4) - More light bounces from surfaces will increase rendering time but result in a more accurate lighting solution.
Light Balancer
- Sets the number of channels to use and default channels for groups of lights. See: Light Balancer
Set light channels
- Sets the names of the Light Balancer channels.