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Simplified Layouts
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Simplified Layouts // New Users
Post by TomG // Apr 20, 2009, 9:15am
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TomG
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Hi all,
The layout in trueSpace when you first open it attempts to be all things to all people. It has all the tools for modeling, lighting, editing, making materials, applying UV maps, making skeletons, animating, and so on and so forth - quite a daunting list! To make life a little less daunting, and to help you find your way around the tools, attached is a download with some new simplified layouts. If you are brand new to trueSpace, you may want to load up these layouts to make the program a little clearer on first use.
If you already use trueSpace, you might find the removal of clutter a useful thing in your workflow.
I'd like to thank trueBlue (David A. Egan) who provided the two RsObjs to show and hide the default toolbars and so increase the usability of these layouts.
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TO INSTALL
Download the zip, and extract it to give a folder "C:/trueSpace76/tS/RS Main Libraries/TMG Layouts" (first levels may be different depending where you installed trueSpace, so long as you name the extracted folder "TMG Layouts " and its in the RS Main Libraries, then you are good to go).
TO USE
. In the workspace side of trueSpace, use File -> Load
. Navigate to the C:/trueSpace76/tS/RS Main Libraries/TMG Layouts (this assumes a default installation location)
. Choose the TMG Layout.RsObj object. This will change your layout to the Modeling 1680 layout, and remove the default tS toolbars, leaving only the new toolbars showing. The TMG Layouts will be shown as a library in the workspace and you can now change between them.
. When you want to restore the default toolbars, double click the Default Layout.RsObj in the TMG Layouts library (or use File -> Open and load it from C:/trueSpace76/tS/RS Main Libraries/TMG Layouts)
. This returns you to the default layout, and restores the default toolbars.
NOTE - you can load the TMG Layouts without first running the TMG Layout.RsObj, but you will still see the default toolbars as wellas the ones in the new layouts, which will mean duplication of icons, and possible overlap between new and default toolbars.
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The layouts are divided by task, so you have separate layouts that show only relevant tools for that task. The tasks I decided to use are:
Modeling
Animating
Building skeletons
Setting up lighting
Making and applying materials and UV maps
I also added some options that have more than 1 window, these identified by "3view" or "4view" in the name. Each layout also shows its intended resolution. All were created for 1680 initially. The 1024 layouts were saved using Windowed mode and not Full Screen mode, let me know if this causes any issue on 1024 resolution screens, perhaps I need to change my resolution and resave the layouts as Full Screen, not sure.
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The concept in each layout is this:
First menu bar - Creation tools for adding new items (new primitives, new lights, new bones, depending on what task is being done)
Second menu bar - Editing tools that change what is already added (eg point editing, etc)
Global Settings bar - wireframe or solid, world or object co-ordinates, axes locks, etc
The last bar then contains things like library browser, Render To File, open new windows, etc.
There's a lot of stripping out down - the open new window only shows the most useful windows, some more technical things have been removed from there. There's been expansion of options - eg if working with lighting, all light types are shown at once, not hidden in a flyout.
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The last layout, the Visitor one, removes all creation and editing tools, all libraries, all extra windows - use it when visiting shared space and you just want to walk around in the scene and not model or create anything (a kind of "3D viewer" mode). You can still interact with any scripted objects in the scene etc of course. The only icons shown let you log in to shared space, start First Person Navigation, change hardware settings, and swap views - nice and simple for visiting a shared space!
BTW since the Visitor one has no libraries shown, just use File -> Load to open one of the other layouts once done in Visitor mode.
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Finally, do note that the trueSpace courses available don't use these layouts, but you can always go back to the defaults if you want to follow those more directly (it shouldn't be too hard though to find the tools being shown inside these new layouts).
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Hope you find these useful! Remember, you can modify layouts to make your own too if you don't like these :) No reason why trueSpace shouldn't look the way *you* are comfortable with.
Thanks,
Tom
EDIT - Will create a separate comments thread and keep this one closed so people can always see the download and instructions. The discussion thread is at:
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?p=99645#post99645 |
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