Use this menu to adjust lighting in your project. Sometimes you will want to make your project or part of it brighter or darker. Besides that you can simulate ambient light effects. By using sunlight and portal lights you may show how light is entering through windows.
ViSoft Premium uses four different types of lights:
– Point lights: equally dissolving inner lights;
– Spot lights: narrowly shaped inner lights creating a circle with a thin ray of light;
– Portal lights: outer lights entering through apertures such as windows, doors or holes; independent of the sun light;
– Sun light: outer light source entering through apertures.
Point lights are set automatically by the program in regard to the shape and size of your room. Often there will be only one point light in the room. Portal lights are also set automatically for each aperture. You may manually add additional point lights as well as spot lights. Each light can be switched on / off. You can also set properties like position, radius, brightness and color for each of the lights.
Position of light sources can be set in 2D views Floor and Wall or in 3D. When setting brightness it’s recommended to switch to 3D view. In this way you will be able to notice the effect.
By clicking button Inside Lights all point and spot lights that exist in your projects are enabled. When you click button Sunlight you will switch off all of the point and spot lights. Portal lights of windows and holes will be enabled as well as the sunlight. You may still manually switch the sunlight and all other lights on or off and use them in any combination.
Use submenu Lights to set point, spot and portal lights. Use submenu Sun & Sky to set position and brightness of the sun as well as sky settings.
