3ds max Lighting Using the Light Explorer And click okay. And now all the lights are actually working in this view port. Okay, let's take a look at the light explorer. It's found under Tools, All Global Explorers, Light Explorer and I'm going to make this wider, just change the side of this because it's too narrow to see all of the fun things that are found in here. Especially this light intensity. I want to adjust that a lot. So I'm going to move that column over to the left, just click and drag and move it over there.
3ds max Lighting Using the Light Explorer And then I can resize the window so it's not taking up too much space on the screen. And these are the most important properties, the name of the light, its object color, visibility, and its light status, whether it's on or off and then its intensity. Now these are all instances, so if I turn one of them off flicking this light on switch, then they all turn off. Turn that back on again. Likewise with the intensity, if I change one, they will all change. And this is said to have physically accurate value of 240 candelas. The light intensity here is listed in candelas.