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      <div class="title_topic7" id="xps10_pagetitle">Using the Radiosity Method</div>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Do the normal setup process for an image but you do not need to add ambient lights. For radiosity the normal High Quality Image ambient light is ignored. Once you press Start Shade the radiosity processor will start to calculate how light is being distributed through the scene. At regular intervals through the process High Quality Image will generate preview shades of the image at that point. Once the process is complete the photo-realistic mode of shading will be used to create a final image.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">You can stop the process at any time by pressing &lt;Ctrl&gt;+&lt;Shift&gt;+L or pressing the abort button on Windows. When the process is stopped it will then skip to generate the final photo-realistic rendering of the image.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">You can restart the process again by pressing Start Shade again or even change the overall Quality Setting and press Start Shade. The Radiosity process will pick up and continue from the current point in the solution and continue to calculate the indirect lighting.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The Radiosity solution will start over from scratch with a new solution if you:</p>
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