8.13.10 The Lighting Control Dialog

The lighting control dialog is an implement of the Lighting tab. To bring up the dialog, activate a 3D openGL graph and click the Lighting Control Dialog button Button Lighting Control Dialog.png in the Styles toolbar.

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The Source Direction Tab

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To control the direction of lighting source, you need to:

Click on the graphical control button and move it arbitrarily.

or

Enter number of angles of horizontal and vertical direction.

The default position of light source is 0 at horizontal and 90 at vertical.

The possible range of light source is 0 to 360 for horizontal and 90 to -90 for vertical.

Horizontal angle equals 0 is equivalent to that equals 360.


The Properties Tab

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Diffuse

To change the effect of diffuse light, you can

  1. Choose a light color.
  2. Select an intensity value, range from 0 - 100.

A preview effect combined of color and intensity is shown in the right simultaneously with the change of settings, also the effect is shown real-time in the original graph.

The default color is White and default intensity is 100.

Specular

To change the effect of specular light, you can

  1. Choose a light color.
  2. Select an intensity value, range from 0 - 100.
  3. Modify the shininess, range from 0 - 128.

The default light color is Black, intensity of 0 and shininess of 64.