Animate Global Lighting Settings

Used to animate Global Lighting settings. This is done by scripting the required setting at various times or frame numbers. As the script is being recorded, the setting changes from one value to the other as specified by the time or frame number setting.

You can access this tool from the following:

Ribbon: Visualization > Animate > Script
Toolbox: Animation Settings

Setting	Description
Start Time	Sets the time or frame number at which the setting is to take effect.
Set Start Date/Time icon	(Time display set to a date or time format only) Opens a date and time dialog that lets you set the start date/time.
Interpolation	Sets the method used to interpolate the change to the setting. Linear — Transition from one setting to the other is calculated linearly. Spline — Calculation of the transition from one setting to the other is based on a b-spline curve.
Velocity	Sets the velocity of the transition from one set of values to the next. Constant — Transition is at a constant rate. Accelerate — Transition starts at rest, moving with constant acceleration. Decelerate — Transition constantly decelerates to finish at rest. Accelerate-Decelerate — Transition starts at rest, accelerates to half-way, then decelerates to finish at rest. Infinite — Transition is instantaneous, from the last viewing position to the camera view. Custom — Used when you edit a velocity curve through the Animation Producer dialog's Velocity Graph.
Setting	Sets the global lighting setting being scripted — Ambient Intensity, Ambient Color, Flash Intensity, Flash Color, Solar Intensity, Solar Time, Solar Color. For each setting, the relevant setting control appears below the setting option menu. Note: It is not possible to freeze (using the Freeze button) global lighting settings that are changing, nor any other changing environmental parameters, such as source lighting and material characteristics.

Key-in: ANIMATOR ANIMATE GLOBALLIGHTING