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Light Layers

Light Layers allow you better control over the direct lighting in your scene. You can simply create a Layer with a set of lights and specify which part(s) should be affected. This can be very useful if you want a highlight on a specific part without affecting the rest of your scene. You can access Light Layers via:

Last updated 3 August 2026

Light Layers allow you better control over the direct lighting in your scene. You can simply create a Layer with a set of lights and specify which part(s) should be affected. This can be very useful if you want a highlight on a specific part without affecting the rest of your scene. You can access Light Layers via:

  • The Light Layer button in the Tools menu.
  • A parts context menu in the real-time view.
  • Properties in Project > Scene.
  • The hotkey Ctrl+K on Windows and Cmd+K on MacOS.

Working with Light Layers

Light Layers with numbers
  1. List of Light Layers A list view of all the Light Layers in your scene.
  2. Add new Layer Adds another Layer to your scene.
  3. Buttons
    1. Pick Parts - This will open a selection dialog to help you select the part(s) you want to be affected by the Layer.
    2. Use Layer for Selected Parts - If you have one or more parts selected in the real-time view, you can use this button to apply the Layer to these parts.
    3. Select Parts with Layer - This selects all parts that are affected by the active Layer.
  4. List of Lights A list of all lighting in your scene.

Close Mesh

If you have a polygon with a holes in it you can use Close Mesh to fill in missing polygons or close the gab between holes.

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Edit Normals

If your model appears to have a hole or flat areas, the Edit Normals tool can help you to unify the normals.

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Flip Normals

The Flip Normals tool allows you to automatically or manually reverse the direction of the normals on an object by selecting its faces.

Tools

Light Positioning

The Light Positioning tool can be triggered in different ways:

Tools

Match Perspective

Perspective Matching helps you interactively match the Perspective camera to the camera angle with which a background image was taken.

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