This pops up the list of commands and menus
you??™ve just hidden away (see Figure 3.24)! Press d again to
access the Display Options panel to unhide the toolbar. Now that you know where
things are located, just use Alt+F2 to hide and unhide the toolbar. You can also
open the Surface Editor quickly by pressing F5.
Figure 3.23 You can use the Display Options tab to hide Layout??™s toolbars.
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Figure 3.22
Load a basic scene
into LightWave to set
up some surfaces. Figure 3.24
Display Load
Scene and other
valuable commands
in this
contextual menu
by Ctrl+Shift+
clicking in the
Layout window,.
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Note
3. After the scene has been loaded, click the Surface Editor button on the left side of
the interface to open the Surface Editor panel.
You can see that by default, the object name appears in the Surface Name list.
4. Clicking the small triangle to the left of the BasicBalls filename opens and closes
the Surface Name list for that particular object.
All the surfaces associated with the BasicBall object appear, as shown in Figure 3.25.
Figure 3.25 When an object is selected in Layout and the Surface Editor is opened, the
selected object??™s surfaces are listed.
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