SCENE MENU

The commands in the SCENE menu control the way surfaces are visualized. The scene definitions apply to both camera view rendering and ExTrace visualization.

The visualization components include the camera and light points, which may be interactively defined and edited with a comprehensive scene editor. Other scene variables are the object colors and materials, whose definition is achieved through the materials editor.

Most scene parameters, such as the camera, lights and background type, are stored in the "SCENE" element. Materials are stored separately in the "MAT" element. Thus, the scene definitions may be saved, for use in different modeling and visualization sessions.

Any changes to the scene components are immediately updated in camera view shading and ExTrace, and vice versa if any graphical operations are executed in the rendering and ExTrace windows.

Rendering does not take into account all the scene definitions. Reflective objects will only reflect the background, but not other objects. Transparency is not displayed by shaded rendering, and only certain types of textures are shown. To display all these features, use ExTrace for visualization.