3ds max Lighting Adjusting light intensity and color I don't tend to use the presets very much. In fact, I usually just type in the Kelvin value directly for the color temperature of that light. So I'll choose Kelvin, and it's defaulted 3,600 degrees and in fact, that's a pretty good value. I'm going to leave it at that. If you wanted to set a particular color for the light, not using it's color temperature, then you could use this filter color swatch here. I'll put the color back to it's default of D65 and then click on the filter color swatch and we can set any color we want here with just standard red, green, and blue values. Unfortunately these are eight bit values and we have range from zero to 255. All right, I'll cancel out of that, and that's how you set up the intensity and color for a photometric light.
