[Paraview-developers] Lighting in Paraview

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Look at the attached script. I don't see any lighting other than
ambient or am I missing something?

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, the lily <the.1.lily at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Utkarsh
>
> I did that and I got a surface with some lighting but there is a shading
> effects which is something that you do not
>
> get from Ambient lighting you only get it from normals, so is Paraview
> applying other lighting ?
>
> or are these steps gonna give me Ambient lighting only
>
>> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:01:22 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] Lighting in Paraview
>> From: utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
>> To: the.1.lily at hotmail.com
>> CC: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>
>>
>> ParaView uses multiple lights by default. To disable all lights, use
>> the following:
>>
>> RenderView1 = GetRenderView()
>>
>> # Turn off "Head Light"
>> RenderView1.LightSwitch = 0
>>
>> # Turn off "Light Kit"
>> RenderView1.UseLight = 0
>>
>> Don't forget to set the ambient factor on your representations of
>> you'll see nothing.
>> r = GetDisplayProperties()
>> r.Ambient = 1.0
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:38 AM, the lily <the.1.lily at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear all
>> >
>> > I'm trying to understand how is paraview applying the lighting, is it
>> > using
>> > more than one lighting resource
>> >
>> > I found head lighting, back lighting ...
>> >
>> > and how can I disable all different lights (using python scripting) and
>> > work
>> > only with a regular ambient light ?
>> >
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