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or globally using the Views menu > Global Viewport Rendering Setting commands on page 173. NOTE This and other shaded viewport options support self-illuminated materials and 32 lights (depending on display mode and graphics card). Wireframe Displays objects as edges only, as if they were made from wire. Wire color is determined by object color (default). Other Displays a cascading menu of other shading modes. These include: ■ Smooth Displays smoothing, but doesn't show highlights. ■ Facets+Highlights Displays highlights, but doesn't show smoothing. ■ Facets Shades faces, but doesn't display smoothing or highlights. ■ Flat Renders each polygon in its raw, unshaded diffuse color, disregarding any contribution from ambient lighting or light sources. This rendering method is useful when it's more important to see each polygon than to see its shading. It's also a good way to check the results of bitmaps created with Render to Texture on page 6371. ■ Hidden Line A wireframe mode that hides faces and vertices with normals on page 8059 pointing away from the viewpoint, as well as any parts of objects that are obscured by closer objects. In this display mode only, the wireframe color is determined by the Viewports > Hidden Line Unselected color, not the object or material color. See Colors Panel on page 7712. ■ Lit Wireframes Displays edges as wireframe, but shows lighting. ■ Bounding Box Displays objects as a bounding box on page 7932 only. Edged Faces Available only when the current viewport is in a shaded mode. Displays the wireframe edges of objects along with the shaded surfaces. This is helpful for when you want to edit meshes in a shaded display. Edges are displayed using the object wireframe color, while surfaces use material colors (if assigned). This lets you create contrasting colors between the shaded surfaces and the wireframe edges. You can switch these assignments on the Display Color rollout on page 177. Transparency Sets the quality of transparency display in the selected viewport: ■ Best Highest quality transparency display; longer redraw time. ■ Simple Less accurate transparency display, however viewport redraw is considerably faster with Simple. 7582 | Chapter 25 User Interface