Hi tomot, I see - well it won't be much longer before v2 is out and then there will be a v2 trial version.

The software itself is ready for v2 now, I'm just working on updating the documentation.

From v1 to v2 has been about 2 years worth of work so quite a lot of stuff has been improved, including a major overhaul of the lighting system to avoid dark areas just like you were suggesting.


For v1 the best that you can do for this issue is to set up a keyboard shortcut that will toggle the light direction. Then if you have a dark area you can hit that shortcut key which will change the lighting.

To do that in v1, go to Options > Shortcut keys, and add in a new entry. For the "Key" part put in whatever you want to trigger it, like maybe L for lighting. Then for the "Command" part in the second column, paste in the following:

script: /* Toggle light direction */ var dir = moi.view.lightDirection; if ( dir.x == 1 && dir.y == 1 && dir.z == -1 ) { dir.set(-0.5,1,0); } else { dir.set(1,1,-1); } moi.view.lightDirection = dir;

Then when you have a dark area that you want to work in, hit L (or whatever key you picked) and it should shift the lighting around enough so that dark area is now in light.


For v2 it is not necessary to do any of that though.


- Michael