The new layout (“Palette-like” in comparison with an old “Classic”) was created for the Render Manager (see Fig. 13). The key features of this layout are the following:
General
You can specify how the Render Manager is displayed by selecting either Classic or Palette-Like
Classic
- Variable sized preview.
- Tree can be hidden.
- Each category of components is displayed on separate tabs.
Palette-like
- Fixed square preview area (240x240) (red rectangle at the Fig. 13)
- The tree (blue rectangle at the Fig. 13) can not cannot be hidden.
- While resizing the dialog, only the tree’s height and the properties area (green rectangle at the Fig. 13) size (width and height) are changing
- The new, “All in one” view was created for the case when the shaders set item is selected in the tree. In this view it is possible to see all properties of the shaders set. This view is replaced the old (uncomfortable and uninformative) view with the shaders icons (see Fig. 14).
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- size change.
- All properties of the main shader are shown on one page. Components of sub shaders are shown on separate pages.
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The Palette-like option is always used when the Render manager is accessed from object properties. |
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Figure 13 “Palette-like” layout of the Render Manager
For the switching between old (“Classic”) and new (“Palette-like”) layouts of the Render Manager, the new options was added to the new “Render Manager Options” page (can be called via “Options/Render Manager Options” command). See Fig. 15.
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Low Level: Loads the minimal set of componenets - Active components ‐ Active components as well as those for the components in only the current type’s ﴾Material, Luminance, Environment or Render Style﴿ category.
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