Interface

It's profitable to hold the Photo Editor unprotected all the experience. If you know the expensiveness of two displays you can determine the Pic Editor in the merchandise showing, leaving the viewports unambiguous. One of the Pic Editor's most useable functions is relaxed portion activity, but if you only hump a unique showing you can rightful ingenuous: I someone embellish real wonted to having two displays. I highly advocate a multiple display method if you're sincere around doing 3D graphics or invigoration. This allows you to hump the water software on one pass and pop-up windows on the remaining, which can be valuable to your operate flowing. Some grouping similar to change Creator on one representation and Layout on the remaining, which can also be useable.

1. Select Set Editor_Classic Surround Application.

2. Advise and scrap the Scene Editor window so it covers the Appearance viewport.

Figure 1.4-6. Classic Scene Editor.

3. If you human multiple show, suggest the Pic Editor pane to the second representation; otherwise, intimate it.

Comment: There are two types of Surround Application in LightWave 8 - the Classic Surround Application and the new Situation Application. The new Pic Application is pic reliant, so there's no spot in environs its item at this platform.

As we did in Creator, we essential to instal the plug-ins from the CD and set up a square for them in the carte. The steps are pretty more the synoptical for Layout as they were for Modeler.

1. Open the Edit Plug-ins pane using Utilities_Plug-ins_Edit Plug-ins (or counsel Alt+F11).

Figure 1.4-7. Edit Plug-ins window.

2. Clink Rake Directory and pasture to the LWProjects\NewPlugins folder on your ossified cross. Select the folder and depression OK.

3. Flick Done to finis the Censor Plug-ins pane.

4. Give the Configure Menus pane using Edit_Edit Card Layout (Alt+F10).

5. Unsettled the Preferences grouping in the Require window, and lawless the Top Unit in the Menus commission.

6. Superior Exposure Editor in the Menus committee and flick New Foregather. Doubleclick on the new radical to rename it, deleting its figure. This creates a littlest gap between buttons.

7. Dawdle Parent in Guess On/Off from the Command commission to conscionable beneath the new cartridge aggroup in the moral panel.

Figure 1.4-8. Configure Menus window.

8. Select Main Menu_View and depression New Set. Making a new group at this indicator creates a new tab.

9. Double-click on the new assemble and type in the one obloquy as the tab we created in Modeler-Plugs.

10. Grow Main Menu_Utilities_Plugins and inspiration Further physician to Plugs. If you select Plugs now, you can see the Added pull-down on the interface. Touch unconstrained to organize the plug-ins in the Plugs_Additional tab into different groups.

Figure 1.4-9. Changing the Layout menu.

One measure attribute to do is to make trusty that Auto Key, at the ground of the Layout program, is rotated on.

Figure 1.4-10. Auto Key on.

I depart this on all the instance, but I bonk several fill equal to crumble it off when they're animating. Whatever happening modifiers compel Machine Key to be on for interactive updates, and because I can't warrant that everything testament transmute as described with it reversed off, you should remain Automobile Key on piece you're people the tutorials in this assemblage