3ds Max 9 Bible

Advanced lighting offers a new way to shine lights on your scenes. With these features, many new lighting options are available. Advanced lighting enables two global illumination methods: light tracing and radiosity. In this chapter, you accomplished the following:

• Enabling advanced lighting

• Discovering light tracing

• Setting local advanced lighting settings

• Discovering radiosity

• Using the Subdivide modifier

• Setting local and global advanced lighting settings

• Using advanced lighting materials and the Lighting Analysis tool

The next part is "Animation," and in the next chapter, you learn the basics of animation and working with keys.