There are three predefined archives that are installed with Presenter:
- The
Recommended
archives contain materials, lighting, effects, and rendering styles that are recommended for most users. These include materials, lights, and effects that can be seen during interactive navigation in Autodesk Navisworks and can be fully rendered with Viewport. Of course, they will look better when rendered photorealistically.
- Additional materials, light studios, effects, and render styles are available in the
Standard
archives. These include materials that cannot be fully reproduced using Viewport and therefore will not be seen properly in interactive mode, or until a full photorealistic render is done.
- Any materials, lights, effects, and render styles from any archive can be used as a template starter for your own definitions, but the
Templates
archives contain instances of each type of material, light, effect, and render style, giving you quicker access.
Tip: Additional LWA archives can be downloaded from
Lightworks-User, and added to the
Materials,
Lighting,
Effects, and
Rendering tabs.
Although materials, lights, effects, and render styles cannot be edited in archives, once dragged into the scene’s palette, they can be edited and saved with the scene in an NWF file, or published as an NWD file.
You can save your own edits to materials into an NWP file format. See Organize and Manage Materials for more information on how to do this.
The User Archives
The user archives allow you to save your own edited materials, lights, effects, and render styles for use in other scenes.
The User archives are accessible from each of the Materials, Lighting, Effects, and Rendering tabs. On each of the tabs, the archives are named My Materials, My Lighting, My Effects, and My Render Styles, respectively.