You must select one of the surfaces in the list before you can begin to work
with it.When you select a surface, you see the surface properties change.Working with a
hierarchy like this is extremely productive and enables you to quickly access any surface in
your scene.
To save screen space, LightWave??™s Surface Editor allows you to collapse the Surface Name
list by clicking the button marked with a right-pointing triangle above the Load button
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at the top of the panel. Figure 3.6 shows the Surface Editor with the collapsed Surface
Name list. Click the button again (it now points left) to expand the list, or choose a surface
using the Surface drop-down at the top of the panel, as in Figure 3.7.
Figure 3.6 We clicked the small triangle
at the top of the Surface Editor panel to
collapse the Surface Name list.
Figure 3.7 You select surface names in
a collapsed view by using the Surface
drop-down list.
Selecting Existing Surfaces
Take control of your surfaces, and you??™ll have a better time navigating through the Surface
Editor panel. You have three modes to assist you in quickly selecting the surface or surfaces
you want:
?—? Edit By
?—? Filter By
?—? Pattern
The Edit By drop-down, found at the top-left corner of the Surface Editor panel, has two
options: Object and Scene.
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