To display:Accessed in a number of ways and behaves differently, depending on where it is opened:
• If you choose View > Display Options(All Cameras) from the main menu bar, you can define how all cameras used in the scene perceive objects in the viewports and how they interact with the scene.
• If you open from a viewport by choosing Display Options in the Display Types menu, you can set display options for the camera associated with the currently selected viewport view (i.e., User, Camera, Top, etc.).
Display Options
Wireframe Mode
Show Simplified Subdivision Wireframe
Toggles visibility of a simplified version of an object’s subdivision wireframe in any wireframe view in a viewport.
Wireframe Color
Sets the color of the wireframe of unselected objects. Specify either the default wireframe color (set in the Scene Colors Property Editor), or the object’s diffuse color.
Shaded Mode
XRay Mode
Toggles the x-ray drawing style for wireframe objects (such as bones and nulls) that are inside or behind geometric objects. You can then choose an XRay Display Type. X-ray drawing is very useful when working with envelopes because you can see and select the underlying deformers while still seeing the shaded surface of the envelope.This option works in constant, shaded, and textured display types.
XRay Display Type
Sets the drawing style for the XRay Mode:
• Overlay draws the wireframe objects (such as bones and nulls) on top of the objects (such as envelopes).
• Screen draws a semi-transparent object (envelope) so that you can see the wireframe objects (bones) inside.
Enable Transparency
Toggles OGL transparency on and off. When transparency is on, objects that have transparency enabled in their surface shader properties appear transparent in the Constant, Shaded, Textured, Textured Decal, and Realtime Shaders viewing modes.
OGL transparency works only when you are using non-alpha channels to control transparency (RGB in RGBA mode, HLS in HLSA mode, and so on).
Sort Transparent By
Determines how transparent objects are sorted before they are drawn in shaded views:
None: No sorting is performed.
Min Depth: Objects are sorted according to the front of their bounding boxes.
Max Depth: Objects are sorted according to the back of their bounding boxes.
Average Depth: Objects are sorted according to the middle of their bounding boxes.
Objects are always drawn from back to front, as determined by the sort order.
Hidden Line Surface Color
Sets the color used to display objects in hidden line mode.
• Transparent allows you to see rotoscopy images, as well as non-geometric objects like nulls and bones, that are behind hidden-line objects, but geometric objects will still occlude each other properly.
• Background Color uses the color of the background as set on the Geometry Views tab of the Scene Colors property editor. See Scene Colors Property Editor.
• Viewport Color uses the color of the viewport as set on the Geometry Views tab of the Scene Colors property editor.
• Object Diffuse Color uses the diffuse component of each object’s material.
Vertex Color
Toggles the display of painted vertices in shaded view. For more information about painting colors at vertices, see Vertex Colors [Texturing].
Blend Using Alpha in Texture Decal
When a 3D view’s display mode is set to Textured Decal, activating this option blends a material’s currently displayed texture with the surface of the object to which the material is applied according to the texture’s alpha channel. For more information about displaying textures in shaded viewing modes, see Clips & Sources [Texturing].
Shaded Mode Wireframe Highlight
Show Wireframe on Selected Objects:
Toggles a selected object’s wireframe visibility in any shaded or textured view in a viewport.
Show Wireframe on Unselected Objects
Toggles unselected objects’ wireframe visibility in any shaded or textured view in a viewport.
Show Transparent Selected Wireframe
In any shaded or textured view mode, this option makes a selected object’s display transparent, letting you “see through” the object.
Show Simplified Subdivision Wireframe
Toggles visibility of a simplified version of an object’s subdivision wireframe in any shaded or textured view in a viewport.
Show Simplified Surface when Hull Visible
Toggles the visibility of the wireframe on a subdivision surface when the hull is also visible in any shaded or textured view in a viewport.
Wireframe Highlight Line Width
Controls the width of the highlighted lines of selected objects in any shaded or textured viewing mode.
Wireframe Highlight Line Opacity
Controls the opacity of the wireframe lines in any shaded or textured viewing mode.
Depth-Cue/Fog
These options control depth fading in Depth-Cue display mode, as well as the display of non-renderable OpenGL-based fog in other display modes. For example, when you set the range options, they specify the range of the Depth fading effect in Depth-Cue mode, and the density of the fog, if activated, in other display modes.
Enable Fog
Toggles the display of fog in the OGL views to give a visual indication of scene objects’ distance from the camera/viewpoint.
Fog is visible in any display mode except for Depth Cue, which uses the same Falloff settings as fog, but ignores the Color.
Fog is for display purposes only, and is not renderable.
Falloff
Defines the way in which depth cue/fog fall off over distance. Choose one of the thee available options: Linear, Exponential, or Exponential2.
Depth Cue Range (Linear mode only)
Determines the range of the depth cue.
Scene: Sets the range to the depth of the scene.
Selection: Sets the range to the depth of the selected object(s).
Custom: Lets you specify the depth cue range by defining Start and End values.
Start/End Distance (Linear mode only)
When Custom depth cue range is enabled, these options specify the start and end of the range respectively.
Density (Exponential mode only)
Controls the density of the of the fog/depth cue effect when the Falloff option is set to Exponential, or Exponential2.
Fog Color
Sets the color for the fog. Use the sliders to define any color.
Realtime Shaders - OpenGL
The following parameters control the display of realtime rendered OpenGL shadow maps in 3D views. For shadow maps to display properly, several conditions must be met:
• Scene lights must have shadows toggled on to be involved in the shadow calculation.
• The lights must be spot lights or point lights.
• The Realtime Shadows display option must be activated.
• 3D views must be set to the Realtime Shaders > OpenGL mode to display the shadows.
The shadow maps are rendered to a Pbuffer (Windows systems) or a frame buffer (Linux systems). The resolution of the buffer controls the quality of the shadows.
Realtime Shadows
When activated, OpenGL shadow-map based shadows are displayed in 3D views whose display mode is set to Realtime > OpenGL.
For realtime shadows to be displayed, shadows must be enabled in the light’s property editor.
Optimize Interaction
When activated, realtime shadows are updated after each interaction, rather than in real time.
This option should be deactivated before you output the scene using any of the hardware rendering options on the Hardware Renderer Property Editor.
Object Casting Shadows
Specifies what type of objects cast realtime shadows:
Geometry Only: Only the geometry of renderable objects is rendered.
Everything: all objects cast shadows, including non-renderable objects like chains and curves.
P-Buffer Resolution
Specifies the resolution of the PBuffer to which realtime shadows are rendered. The higher the resolutions, crete higher quality shadows but will slow interaction considerably.
Shadow Color
Defines the color of the shadows. Use the sliders to set any color. This parameter is animatable, so you can change the color over time.
Head Light (overrides all other lights)
The headlight is a virtual light shining into the scene and linked to the position of the camera. It is visible in any shaded OGL display mode (Shaded, Textured, Textured Decal, and so on). When activated, it temporarily disables all other scene lights. This is useful when you want to preview the shadowed parts of scene objects. The headlight is for display purposes only, and is not renderable.
Enable Head Light
Turns the head light on or off. By default, the headlight shines from the camera’s position. However, you can change its position using the Azimuth and Elevation controls.
Specular
When enabled, the head light affects the specular components of the objects that it lights.
Intensity
Controls the intensity of the head light. Higher values create brighter lighting.
Azimuth
Specifies the horizontal angle between the head light and the camera, which can range from -90 degrees to 90 degrees.
Elevation
Specifies the vertical angle between the head light and the camera, which can range from -90 degrees to 90 degrees.
Display Mode
Mixed Viewing Mode
Displays objects according to their individual Display properties. Turning this option on is equivalent to turning Override Object Properties off in the Display Type menu of a viewport.
Objects without individual Display properties are displayed according to the settings below.
These options control how objects are displayed under different viewing conditions. The left column controls selected objects and the right column controls unselected objects.
• Static controls how objects are drawn when you are not interacting in the viewports or playing back animation.
• Interactive controls how objects are drawn when you are zooming, orbiting, transforming, etc., interactively in the viewports.
• Playback controls how objects are displayed when playing back animation.
Mode
Sets the display type (bounding box, wireframe, hidden line, constant, shaded, texture, texture decal, or realtime shaders) for objects.
Static: Step
Sets the level of geometry approximation used to display subdivision surfaces, NURBS surfaces, and curves. Choose Coarse, Medium, or Full.
Copy Static Selected Mode to All
Applies the values set for static selected objects to all objects.
Construction History
Construction Level Viewing Mode
Determines how objects are displayed in the 3D view:
• Result (top) always shows the final result of all operators in the construction history, no matter which construction mode is current.
• Sync with construction mode shows the result of the operators in the current construction region and below.
You can continue to apply deformation and topology operators no matter which region is displayed. You can even have different displays in different views so, for example, you can see and move points in one view in Modeling mode while you see the results after enveloping and other deformations in another view.
Performance
Culling
Backface Culling
When on, both the front and back faces of objects are rendered. When off, the back faces will be culled (ignored).
View Frustum Culling
When on, only the area within the camera’s field of view is drawn.
Fast Playback
Fast playback speeds up playback of the scene in 3D views by temporarily hiding the grid and drawing simplified objects during playback. The first time you play back the scene, the frames are cached according to the cache settings. Subsequent playbacks are faster because the frames are cached. See Playing Back All Frames or Playing in Real Time [ Animation ].
Fast Playback
Activates fast playback.
Clear
Clears the fast playback cache.
Wireframe Capture Only
When on, only object wireframes are captured for the cache and displayed during playback.
Use 3D Cache
When on, and the Wireframe Capture Only setting is activated, the Fast Playback uses the 3D cache.
Cache Size (KB/frame)
Sets the amount of RAM allocated per frame when caching images.
Ghosting
These parameters let you set up the ghosting display in the viewport for animated or simulated objects.
Mixer Ghosting
Mixer ghosting lets you see the contribution of each clip that is being blended (overlapping clips) in the animation mixer.See Ghosting Clips [ Nonlinear Animation ].
Enable Mixer Ghosting
Toggles the display in any 3D view of ghosted shapes of objects animated by clips in the animation mixer.
Toggling this option is the same as toggling the Mixer Ghosting option in the display types menu in the viewport.
Mixer Ghost Enter Compounds
Specifies whether or not the contents of compound clips are displayed for ghosting.
Animation Ghosting
Animation ghosting, also known as onion-skinning, lets you display a series of snapshots of animated objects at frames or keyframes behind and/or ahead of the current frame. This lets you easily visualize the motion of an object, which can help you improve its timing and flow. Objects can be animated in any way, from keys to clips in the mixer to animated deformations and simulations.
To use ghosting for previewing rigid body simulations, you must first cache the rigid body simulation in the Simulation Time Control property editor.
By default, the object’s geometry is used as the ghost shape, but you can change the display type (such as a motion trail or points) in each animated object’s Visibility property editor.
Toggles the display in any 3D view of ghosted shapes of animated objects.
Toggling this option is the same as toggling the Animation Ghosting option in the display types menu in the viewport.
Enable Skeleton FK/IK Ghosting
Toggles the display in any 3D view of ghosted shapes of skeleton chains animated with inverse kinematics (position of the effector) or forward kinematics (rotation of the bone).
You must select Enable Animation Ghosting for skeleton ghosting to appear.
Toggling this option is the same as toggling the Skeleton FK/IK Ghosting option in the display types menu in the viewport.
Draw Ghosts on Top
Ghosts are drawn on top of other objects in the viewport.
Fade
Ghosts become more transparent (fade out) as they get farther from the current frame. Ghosts on statics frames (see below) cannot be faded.
Trail Subdivisions
This option is active onlywhen Trail is selected as the display type in the object’s Visibility property. The trail is drawn between the first and last ghost frames using the number of ghost frames and this parameter’s value to sample the motion at regular intervals. A smooth curve is then drawn through the sample points. Higher settings make the trail more closely match the underlying motion, but will take longer to compute.
Velocity Scale Factor
Value that controls the length of the vector drawn when you select Velocity as the ghost display type in the object’s Visibility property editor. The default value of 1 draws the velocity vector full size (Softimage units per second).
Frame Options:
Frames Before
Number of frames on which to display ghosts before the current frame. These are frames that have already played (happened before the current frame). The sliders only go up to 10, but you can enter a higher value in the text box.
Frames After
Number of frames on which to display ghosts after the current frame. These are the upcoming frames (will happen after the current frame). The sliders only go up to 10, but you can enter a higher value in the text box.
Frame Step
Number of frames to display between ghosts. For example, a value of 2 displays a ghost on every other frame.
Anchor Frames
Keeps the ghosts stationary with respect to the animated object, making it easier to evaluate the object’s motion. When the Frame Step value is high, the position of the ghosts change from frame to frame because they are relative to the current frame. This option positions the ghosts at absolute frames.
Before Color
Color of ghosts on frames before the current frame.
After Color
Color of ghosts on frames after the current frame.
Set the Alpha value of the color to make the ghosts semi-transparent.
Keyframe Options:
Displays ghosts only on an object’s keyframes. These options work only with keys set on an object’s local or global transformation parameters.
Keys Before
Number of keyframes on which to display ghosts before the current frame. These are keyframes that have already played (happened before the current frame). The sliders only go up to 10, but you can enter a higher value in the text box.
Keys After
Number of keyframes on which to display ghosts after the current frame. These are the upcoming keyframes (will happen after the current frame). The sliders only go up to 10, but you can enter a higher value in the text box.
Key Step
Number of keyframes to display between ghosts. For example, a value of 2 displays a ghost on every other keyframes.
Before / FK Color
Color of ghosts on keyframes before the current frame.
When using Skeleton FK/IK Ghosting, this is the color of ghosts for chains animated in FK.
After Color / IK Color
Color of ghosts on keyframes after the current frame.
When using Skeleton FK/IK Ghosting, this is the color of ghosts for chains animated in IK.
Set the Alpha value of the color to make the ghosts semi-transparent.
Static Frame Options:
Lets you specify exactly which frames on which you want to display ghosts. These ghosts are not updated (they are static) as the animation changes.
Static Frames
Enter a list of frame numbers on which you want to display static ghosts. The frame numbers need to be separated by commas, such as 6, 12, 18, etc.
Static Color
Color of ghosts on static frames.
Set the Alpha value of the color to make the ghosts semi-transparent because you cannot use the Fade option for ghosts on static frames.
