Now, to the menus!
Tabs and Menus
Across the top of the Modeler screen, you??™ll see nine tabs, each representing a different
group of modeling tools. This section guides you through the different tabs and explains
how they are organized. Figure 1.18 shows the tabs across the top of Modeler.
Figure 1.18 The LightWave v9 menus are tabbed across the top of the interface. Selecting
any of these brings up various tools on the left side of the screen.
When you select different tabs, different toolsets become available. Think of a toolset simply
as a group of tools. Years ago, tools were just floating around in LightWave Modeler,
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Figure 1.17 You can also choose to view your
object layers as a List or Hierarchy.
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some of them hidden deep within menus.Now, version 9 has significantly streamlined the
tools and grouped them quite well. The LightWave Modeler toolset works similarly
throughout the program, with slight variations depending on which tool you are using.
This next section guides you through the toolset categories within each of the Modeler tabs.
Note
When working in LightWave Modeler, really think about the
process, and you??™ll have a much easier time locating the proper
tool.
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