Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max, 3rd Edition

INDEX

 

 

3D camera:

computer generated lighting, 329–30

controls, 330–41

line of action, 331–32

perspective, 332–4

point-of-view shots, 334

zoom shots, 329

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‘Academy ratio’, film format, 341

Additive mixing, 11

Advanced Lighting mode, 34, 118–19

Algorithms: raytracing, 102

shadow lighting, 45, 48–9, 51

Ambient light:

description, 36–7

occlusion, 195

occlusion tutorial, 196–7

Anatomy of computer generated (CG) lights, 41–3

Angleofsun, 150

Animation, light, 26–7

Apocalypse Now, 305

Arch&Design material element, 263

Area lights:

arrays, 85

description, 35–6

lighting techniques, 81

mental ray, 81

physically-based lighting, 176

tutorial, 82–4

Arrays: dome, 153

light, 154

lighting techniques, 85–6

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