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Lighting and Environments

Objective: Optimize the scene’s lighting and environment for realistic reflections and highlights.

Adjust Lighting

  • Go to the Lighting tab in the Project panel.

  • Set Ray Bounces to 17 for enhanced diamond brilliance.

Change Environment

  • Download the custom environment from the course resources and place it in the Documents > KeyShot > Environments folder.
  • In KeyShot, refresh the environment list.
  • Apply the new environment to the scene, double click.
  • In the Environment tab, change the Background to Color.

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