It only changes the relationship of those items to LightWave??™s world.
Figure 2.49
LightWave Layout??™s
default unit of
measurement, Grid
Size, is 1 meter.
The Grid Size can
be increased or
decreased as needed.
Modeler ToolsTab
New to LightWave v9 is the Modeler Tools tab in Layout (Figure 2.50). This provides some
basic modeling tools within Layout. While nowhere near as powerful as the tools in
Modeler, these are mostly useful for setting up simple objects as placeholders.
Figure 2.50 The Modeler Tools tab makes basic modeling possible within Layout.
Toggles
Tools in the Toggles category are really switches that turn on and turn off useful functions
that were available only in Modeler in previous versions of LightWave. G-Toggle Subpatch
globally activates and deactivates subpatch objects you create in Modeler.You might turn
subpatches on in Layout when fine-tuning surface attributes, then turn them off to speed
up animation previews. The Metamesh toggle works the same way on objects built using
Modeler??™s metamesh tool; you can turn this feature on and off here as well, allowing you
to work with simpler objects.
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