Lighting/Cameras Menu (Enhanced)

Provides options for creating and managing lights and cameras.

Interface

Create Lights

• Target Spotlight
• Free Spotlight
• Target Directional
• Free Directional
• Omni Light
• Target Light (Photometric)
• Free Light (Photometric)
• Daylight System
• Skylight
• mental ray Sky Portal
• mental ray Area Omni
• mental ray Area Spot
• Add Default Lights to Scene

Create Cameras

• Free Camera
• Target Camera
• Create Camera From View

Environment

• Exposure Control

  Opens the Environment panel, where you can add or adjust exposure controls.

Lighting Analysis

This submenu appears only when you are running 3ds Max Design.

• Lighting Analysis Assistant
• Light Meter
• Lighting Analysis Image Overlay

  Adds an Image Overlay render effect to the scene (if none was there before), and opens the Effects panel, where you can adjust the effect's settings.

Light Assembly

These choices are for creating and managing Light assemblies, also known as Luminaires.

• Assemble Objects
• Disassemble Objects
• Assembly Open
• Assembly Close
• Assembly Attach
• Assembly Detach
• Assembly Explode

Tools (Lighting/Cameras Set)

These choices open tools or apply a modifier to help you manage lights and cameras.

• Light Lister
• Light Include/Exclude
• Bake Lighting into Vertices
• Walkthrough Assistant
• Camera Correction Modifier
• Perspective Match