<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Ambient Light</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Blender Documentation Volume I - User Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The World and The Universe" HREF="c5652.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Stars" HREF="x5765.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Animation" HREF="p5814.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Blender Documentation Volume I - User Guide: Last modified April 29 2004 S68</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x5765.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >The World and The Universe</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="p5814.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="world_ambient_light" ></A >Ambient Light</H1 ><P > The <TT CLASS="literal" >World</TT > Panel also contain the sliders to define the Ambient light. The effect of Ambient light is to provide a very simple alternative to Global Illumination, inasmuch as it lights up shadows. </P ><P > Using Ambient light together with other light sources can give convincing results in a fraction of the time required by true GI techniques, but of course the quality doesn't compare. </P ><P > The Ambient light sliders are shown in <A HREF="x5802.html#BSG.WOR.F.S68.111" >Figure 11</A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="figure" ><A NAME="BSG.WOR.F.S68.111" ></A ><DIV CLASS="mediaobject" ><P ><IMG SRC="PartM/world/gfx/WorldAmbient.png"></P ></DIV ><P ><B >Figure 11. Ambient light settings.</B ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x5765.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="p5814.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Stars</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c5652.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Animation</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >