Autodesk 507B1-90A211-1301 User Guide - Page 311

Create Photorealistic Visualizations You can use the Presenter tool to apply texture materials, lighting, Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC), and background effects to your model. 14 Overview of the Presenter Tool Presenter Window The Presenter dockable window is used to set up materials and lights in your scene and render it with more realism and effects. You can also use it to edit pre-defined materials and apply them to items in the scene, add lights to the scene, and set up rules for applying the materials to other files in the same project set up with the same parameters. You can define and apply your materials and lights to a model and save the settings into an NWF file so that as the model is updated, the materials and lights remain the same. Materials can also be brought through from CAD applications via the .3DS, .dwg and .dgn file formats, or by exporting from 3D Studio Viz or Max. See "Work with Files" on page 87 for more details on this. The Presenter window contains the following tabs: ■ Materials. Includes a variety of materials, which can be selected and applied to individual or groups of model items. You can also 299