Advanced Lighting Dialog

Rendering menu > Advanced Lighting

The Advanced Lighting dialog lets you select one of the advanced lighting options. Two are provided with 3ds max:

The Light Tracer provides soft-edged shadows and color bleeding for brightly-lit scenes such as outdoor scenes. Radiosity provides physically accurate modeling of the light in a scene.

Interface

List of plug-ins—Choose an advanced lighting option from this drop-down list. Default=No advanced lighting chosen.

Active—When an advanced lighting option is chosen, use Active to toggle whether the advanced lighting is used when you render your scene. Default=On.