Required Changes To Light Plug-Ins
See Also: What's New in the MAX 3.0 SDK, Required Changes to MAX 2.0 Plug-Ins for MAX 3.0.
Atmospheres and Effects Rollup Support
Light plug-ins should use the new 'Atmospheres & Effects' rollup in their user interface This is a new rollout that lets you assign Atmosphere and Render Effects to a selected light from the command panel. Note that you can do the same thing from within the Environment dialog or the Render Effects dialog, but this provides the controls for the light you’re working on, and lets you easily see, just by selecting a light in the scene, if that light has an effect assigned to it.. See Class Interface and Class Atmospheric for details.
Several New Methods of LightObject
There are a number of new light methods. See Class LightObject to review them.
New Shadow Generator Plug-Ins
Lights may now have a corresponding shadow generator if desired. See the What's New in the MAX 3.0 SDK section discussing the new Shadow Generator Plug-in type or see Class ShadowType.