Index Environment/Background Camera Map (mi) shader, 197, 199 Environment/Background Switcher Parameters rollout, 199, 203 shader, 199 environment light, 7 Environment Probe/Chrome Ball shader, 201 Environment Probe/Gray Ball (mi) Parameters rollout, 199­201 Environment tab, Background area of, 199 Exclusion Map slot, cloning Mask map into, 160, 161f exercises (in this book), purpose of, 14 Exit Isolation Mode button, 222­223 Explode function, of Edit Mesh modifier, 125, 126f Exposure Control. See also mr Photographic Exposure Control adding, 54­55, 55f allowing too much light, 59f balancing extremes of lighting values, 52 described, 8­9 in the Rendering pull-down menu, 116­118, 118f setting for outdoor daylight, 219, 219f Exposure Control rollout, Shutter Speed, 60 exterior scene, using final gather, 17­30 eyedropper cursor, 30 final gather applying to global illumination, 43­44 calculating indirect illumination, 31­36 combining with global illumination, 43­44, 46f described, 31 enabling, 18­20 with an exterior scene, 17­30 in mental ray, 12, 13f providing indirect illumination, 34, 34f rendering, 8 trying on all scenes, 17 final gather points, projecting, 239, 239f Final Gather precision slider, 25, 34, 34f Final Gather rollout, 239, 239f Fire Effect 3D clouds, 172­175, 174f­175f Fire Effects Parameters rollout, Pick Gizmo button, 173­174, 174f Flakes rollout, 89, 90f flicker-free animation, 239­240 flicker reduction, for animation, 239­240 focal length, of the camera, 236 fog, concentrating near the ground, 137, 138f Frame Offset value, in Animation Support area, 210 Free light aligning, 58, 58f placing, 57­60, 57f Fresnel reflections, minimizing, 81f F F-stop, controlling blurring, 183 f-stop numeric field, 184, 185f faces, reporting the number of, 226, 227f­228f fade transition, 238 fast-moving objects, 176 Fast Rasterization process, 179­180 FBX file(s) always produced by Revit, 216 customizing import of, 218f, 219 exporting scenes from Revit, 216 importing, 216­217 FBX Import dialog, 217 FBX Import/Export Warning dialog, 217, 218f FBX plug-in, 216f FG Bounces numeric field, 34­36, 35f filenames, incrementing, 18 Fillet Radius field, in Special Effects, 87, 87f G Gamma and LUT tab, 15, 16f gamma correction default value for, 15, 16f described, 9, 11­12, 14­15 enabling, 15 gamma curve, controlling brightness levels, 9 Geometry category, of the Create panel, 209, 210f geometry proxy, 208­212 geometry, simulating with cutout maps, 85 global illumination (GI) adjusting parameters, 37 applying final gather to a scene, 43­44 beginning with low settings, 38, 40f combining with final gather, 43­44, 46f components of, 6 described, 5­8 244