If you??™re
on a desktop Mac, select Keyboard & Mouse in System Preferences, and under
Keyboard Shortcuts, uncheck the function keys, such as F9, that you wish to use in
LightWave. F9 on a desktop Mac defaults to Expos?©??™s All Windows command. F9 in
LightWave is Render Current Frame. Note that you can change the shortcut for render
in LightWave, but the tutorials in this book will use the default settings.
is within the Content folder, in your LightWave version 9 install folder. Once it
loads, press a to maximize the object within the window. You??™ll use this keyboard
shortcut quite a bit throughout this book.
Note
2. Figure 1.12 shows the object-selection pull-down and the layer buttons as they
appear after the model is loaded into LightWave Modeler. You??™ll see that the first
layer button is depressed by default, and it contains a small dot.
Figure 1.12 Modeler??™s object-selection pull-down shows the name of the loaded object,
Anime_Zombie, and the layer buttons indicate that just one layer is associated
with this object.
These dots inform you that there is geometry in that layer, such as points,
edges, or polygons.
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