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  Lights... Camera...
  January 23, 2009, 04:08 PM Jay Tedeschi

  Hmmm… I have a sneaking suspicion that I have named an entry this before, but a quick search of my archives came up with nothing so I will stick with it. In any case, this one is a quick tip that should help out all of you who use Inventor Studio for creating product imagery.

  The stock lighting styles that ship with Inventor assume a model of X cubic area or volume. You will more likely than not find that when applying a style to a model that is either significantly smaller or larger than the that default volume that the lights simply do not look “right”, either drowning out your model or highlighting a very small patch of it. Well, before you start moving the light origins there is a quick global change that you can make that may be just what you need.

  

  As you can see from this image, the model is a bit larger than the effectively lighted area defined by the default settings in this lighting style. As I already pointed out, this can be corrected without touching the position of either of these lights by simply adjusting the global scale.

  

  Upon opening the Lighting Styles dialog the last tab, named Position, has a Scale slider. Not surprisingly, by default it is set to 100%.

  

  If this setting is changed, as it is here to 300%, then the position of all of the lighting elements in the scene is changed and the result is more in line with what I wanted.

  

  Much better…
  Well, that is it for now, hope this helps.

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  March 5, 2009 10:27 AM Alex Hatziemmanuel

  Thanks Jay, as always very useful tip.