Now, let??™s fill up the bowl.
Exercise 8.5 Filling a Fruit Bowl
You could use Modeler to arrange your still life by loading each piece of fruit and the bowl
and pasting them each into separate object layers, but you??™ll have more flexibility if you
simply load each object into a scene in Layout and position them there.
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1. Open LightWave Layout and click the Items tab. From the Load category, select
Object.When the Load Object dialog box appears, you can select all of the objects
you created in this chapter: the banana, the orange, the grapes, and the bowl. Click
OK to load them. Figure 8.58 shows the objects loaded from the Perspective view.
Figure 8.58 The four objects you created in this chapter are loaded into LightWave Layout.
2. The objects aren??™t quite in the bowl, are they? That??™s OK??”you can easily position
them now. First, select the Orange object. Press Shift+h to size the object. Scale it
up to about 1.8. You can click and drag to size it, and watch the values in the
lower-left corner of the interface.
3. Note that your Auto Key should be on and the timeline slider at frame 0.
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