) Be sure your mouse cursor is in the viewport you want
to maximize before pressing the 0 key. Press 0 again to return from full-screen mode.
Note
Something you might change more often than the viewport view is
the viewport style??”its method of drawing the objects it depicts.
Choosing any of the 10 settings from the drop-down menu shown
in Figure 1.6 lets you visualize models using styles, including
Wireframe, Smooth Shade, and Textured Wire. Different styles are
better suited to various modeling tasks, as we??™ll see later in the book.
Figure 1.7 shows each viewport set to a different style with a different
model loaded, so you can see how flexible the options are.
Note
Figure 1.7 Here, each viewport is set to a different style.There are a total of 10 viewport
style choices.
Your choice of viewport style will be based on the model
you are creating. Often, a good way to work is with the
default settings??”Wireframe style in the X,Y, and Z viewports,
while a Smooth Shade or Textured Wire style is used
in a Perspective view. It??™s totally up to you.
Although LightWave v9 is extremely customizable, the projects in the book will use
the default configurations for Modeler and Layout, for the sake of consistency.
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