Parent in Place
The Parent in Place button is an on-off switch. When activated, it lets you parent (or
unparent) items (objects, lights, etc.) to other items, while preserving their keyframed
positions and rotations. Parenting and unparenting with this option disabled can cause
items to move in unwanted ways.
You??™ll access and use these key tabs and menus often, which you??™ll see as you work your
way through various tutorials in this book. First, read on to learn about the tool categories
of the six main menu tabs in Layout.
ItemsTab
Across the top of the Layout interface are the six key menu tabs you??™ll also find yourself
accessing often. The first is the Items tab (much like Modeler??™s Create menu tab), which is
where you can find the simple item controls, as shown in Figure 2.38. Here, you find oneclick
load tools, which replace, add, and delete functions. In previous versions of LightWave,
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it took a number of clicks to access these tools, and after a while, it
became a bit annoying.
Load
The first category you see within the Items tab is labeled Load.
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