52).You can use these settings to
change LightWave??™s Input Device from a mouse to a tablet, and to set how your frame slider
is viewed. By default, the LightWave timeline shows frames, but you can change this to
show SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) time code units, film
time code, or time in seconds. The most common setting is frames, as in frames per second.
The new Preferences panel is quite robust, so to learn more about this updated
LightWave v9 panel, be sure to view CH2_Prefs.mov in the 3D_Garage_Videos\
Chapter_Videos directory on the book??™s DVD.
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Chapter 2 LightWave v9 Layout 87
LightWave also offers its own custom color
picker, which you can turn on in this panel.
When picking colors for backgrounds or surfaces,
for example, this causes LightWave to
calls up its own custom color picker rather
than the one built into your Windows or Mac
system software.
Finally, as mentioned previously, Layout offers
multiple undo levels, which can be accessed in
this category. Be careful with this. You can??™t
undo everything; primarily, this command is
useful for undoing keyframe motions.
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