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Tips
& Tricks :
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How
to manipulate the position of a texture that has just
been applied to a material right in the preview window.
1) First of all, you select a material by clicking on
it in the preview window. This will produce an interface
to edit the material.
2) At the bottom of the interface, click on the “Apply
texture” option.
3) A second interface will appear which allows you to
“Create” a texture (by selecting from a set
of predefined textures, saved in a selectable folder).
4) After choosing the texture and its size, you can “open”
such texture. You will notice that the selected texture
will appear on the material that you had previously clicked
on.
5) By default, the anchoring point of the applied texture
is its middle point. In order to change the anchoring
point, keep the “Ctrl” key depressed and click
on the cursor which appears on the texture as a highlighted
cross.
6) By keeping your mouse-button pressed on the highlighted
cross, you can drag the texture to the desired location
on the material.
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Is
there a way to control the direction in which a shader
is applied on each of a set of identical materials (this
is useful, for instance, when determining the direction
of wood finishing on various surfaces) ?
Yes.
The trick is in defining each surface as a different material.
Then you can place the shader on one of the surfaces.
Once all parameters are established (color, brilliance,
turbulence, etc.), save such shader in the Shader library.
You can then reuse this shader for the other surfaces,
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How
to move, within the 2D window, the entire trajectory of
an animation.
1)
Select the “Edit Animation” option from the
“Windows” window
2) Change mode to “trajectory edition” by pressing
the button next to the magnifying glass
3) Select an editable point
4) Using your mouse, modify the trajectory while keeping
the “Ctrl” key pressed.
In this manner, the entire plan is displaced.
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How
to duplicate a light
After
you create a model light, you may press the “Ctrl”
key while creating a second light. In this manner, the
second light being created will have the same parameters
as the previously-selected (model) light.
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How
to change the anchoring point of a map, positioned by
default in the center of the map.
Click
on the map while pressing the “Ctrl” key. You
will see that you can then move the anchoring point, denoted
by a highlighted cross, to any location of the map.
To return the anchoring point to the center of the map,
click on the map while pressing down the “Ctrl”
and the “shift” keys simultaneously.
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How
to select an object through a transparent surface
1.
a) In the preview window, click on the transparent surface
that you would like to bypass
b) Go to the Materials List (Windows Menu -> Display
Materials List )
c) In the materials list, the transparent material that
you have previously clicked on will be highlighted, and
there will be two white dots to the left of the material
name
d) De-select the “visible” option of the transparent
surface by clicking on the left, white dot so that the
dot disappears.
e) Go to the “Options” menu and select the “Recalculate”
option to re-render the preview window.
f) You can now click through the transparent material
and select any objects behind it
2.
a) In the preview window, click on the desire
qd object while pressing the “shift” key. In
this manner, the object is selected through the transparent
surface.
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How
to select a visible object through a reflective surface
In order to select such object, click on it while pressing
the “alt” key. |
How
to memorize a color in the Art*lantis color palette (nuancer).
1) Click on any object in the preview window.
2) In the resulting interface, click on the arrow to the
right of the numeric color representation.
3) While pressing on the arrow with the mouse, go down
to the “Nuancer” option. You will notice that
the interface will change to reflect a color palette.
4) If you know the tripartite numeric value of the color
you want to save or “memorize”, enter the value
in the proper interface fields
5) At the bottom of the palette you’ll see some empty
boxes. While pressing the “Ctrl” key, click
on the box where you’d like to save the color that
you just parametrized.
6) Notice that the box you selected now contains your
color
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