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224Motion User Guide
Shadows without lights in Motion
Lighting and shadows can each be disabled independently. You can keep shadows visible,
even when lighting is disabled, allowing you to keep the original unshaded look of the
scene. Turning off lighting also changes the way shadows are rendered.
When shading (the visible effect of lighting) is disabled, shadows behave differently.
Rather than being multiplied with the object upon which they are cast, the shadow’s color
and opacity are controlled only by the Shadows settings in the Light Inspector.
This allows you to create shadows of any color or opacity, from traditional dark shadows to
bright color shadows or even white shadows.
You can disable shading globally in the View menu (choose View > Render Options >
Lighting to remove the checkmark from the menu item) or in the Render pop-up menu
above the canvas (choose Lighting to remove the checkmark from the menu item). You can
also disable shading for a specific layer by setting the Shading parameter in the Properties
Inspector to Off.