| Microsoft DirectX 8.1 (Visual Basic) |
Ambient light is surrounding light that radiates from all directions.
For specific information on how Microsoft® Direct3D® uses ambient light, see Direct Light vs. Ambient Light, and Mathematics of Lighting.
A Microsoft Visual Basic® application sets the color of ambient lighting by invoking the Direct3DDevice8.SetRenderState method and passing the enumerated value D3DRS_AMBIENT as the first parameter. The second parameter is a color value. The default value is zero.
' This code example assumes that D3DDevice contains a valid ' reference to a Direct3DDevice8 object. ' Set the ambient light. Call D3DDevice.SetRenderState(D3DRS_AMBIENT, &H202020)