4d. etc.
This menu has no editing buttons. On the etc. menu you click the plus signs to expand the 3 available options: Configuration, MegaPOV Setting, and Scene Setting. The settings are displayed in the grey, recessed box below after you have chosen an option.
The Expanding Option Buttons
Click the plus sign next to the word, then one of the options which expands below it, for the following settings to appear.
Configuration
- Color Setting - Change the color (by clicking the colored box and choosing the new color) of the following:
- background - the background color of the view screens.
- select object - Color of the curves on all objects in the current patch.
- unselect object - Color of the curves on all objects not in the current patch.
- invisible curve - Color of any curve extending from an invisible point.
- select - Color of a selected point or curve.
- unselect - Color of an unselected point.
- grid - Color of the grids behind the patch.
- Path Setting - Set the path for POV-Ray, MegaPOV, BMRT(program and folder), LightFlow, and Python by clicking the ... button and choosing the program's path.
- Mouse Setting - Set the function of the right, middle, and left+right mouse buttons by choosing the available button under the drop down. The functions are all camera functions except pop-up menu which allows for the following:
- Camera - Allows you to choose from Orthographic (flat) or Perspective camera types for the view window. Choose a predefined setup (Top, Front, Right), adjust camera settings, fit the camera according to the current selection and/or objects, save current camera position as one of four user-defined cameras and also load a previously saved camera.
- Window - Allows you to turn on or off the same windows controlable from the menu window option.
- Save Clipboard - Saves the wireframe or shaded preview currently visible in the window you clicked in as a graphic to the clipboard.
- Render Setting(POV-Ray) - Choose the output scene dimensions, antialiasing, output graphic type and other command line options for POV-Ray. Changing the aspect ratio also changes the size ratio of the perspective view window (Window B).
- etc. Setting - Change the hamaPatch program settings of the following:
- Camera(Rotation Speed) - Speed at which the camera rotates when you are using the camera rotation tools.
- Vertex size - Sets the size (1-9.999) of the vertex points (green dots) on your objects in a patch. Default = 4.000.
- Lathe Settings - Sets the number of times (3-100) the lathe function will copy and extrude the selected points. Default = 8.
- Select Vertex - Sets what will be selected when you use a selection tool. Select All selects all points falling inside the selection area, and leaves those currently selected, as they are. Unselect All unselects everything within the selection are. Inverse is the default, it selects the unselected and deselects the selected point within the selection area.
MegaPOV Setting
See MegaPOV documentation for what all options under the following headings do.
- Version&etc. - Sets MegaPOV verion number (up to 0.7) and clock and number of samples for motion blur, nothing under etc.
- post_process - settings for focal_blur, soft_glow, depth, stars, posterize, normal, clip_colors, invert, and find_edges.
Scene Setting
- background - change background color in the exported scene.
- include - point to any files you wish to include when rendering.
- radiosity - Set radiosity settings: brightness, count, distance_maximum, error_bound, gray_threshold, low_error_factor, minimum_reuse, nearest_count, and recursion_limit. See renderer's documentation for relevant description.
- global_settings - Set global settings: adc_bailout, assumed_gamma, max_intersections, max_trace_level, number_of_waves, ambient_light, irid_wavelength, and hf_gray_16. See renderer's documentation for relevant description of each choice.
- Default Material Setting - Allows the selection of a default material to be used on any object not assigned a material. Check the box to use the finish defined in the specified material and choose to either apply it to the chosen material or to the objects chosen color.
For questions, comments, or additions to this documentation please contact: draven2561@hotmail.com.
Documentation by Jonathan Lee Jul. 23, 2002.
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