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Art Director - Material Window

Rearrange materials by dragging with the mouse.

Right-click the Material Grid and/or the Material Tabs for additional options.

  Zoom Buttons

Use the zoom buttons to control the size of the material thumbnails.

 Add/Delete Material

Use these buttons to add or remove materials from the current material library. Materials added within Art Director have thumbnails that are less accurate than those added from the trueSpace material library window. Whenever possible, use the trueSpace material library window to add materials.

 Load, Save, New, Revert

Standard file operations can be performed on the displayed material libraries using these buttons or the corresponding menu items.

 Append, Import Textures

Click the Append button, or use File|Append..., to add materials from a library file to the displayed material library.

Click the Import Textures button, or use File|Import Textures.., to add materials corresponding to .BMP or .JPG files in a given directory.

  Audition Button

The audition button opens the Audition window. To use the audition window, the trueSpace Material Preview window must be open. To open the Material Preview window, right-click on any of the paint tools.

  Material Tabs

Left-click the material tabs to access the material pages. Use the Pages menu to add, remove, or edit material page properties using the Material Page Info Dialog.

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Art Director - Audition Window

   Audition Button

Click this button to audition a set of materials. To use the audition, the trueSpace Material Preview window must be open. To open the Material Preview window, right-click on any of the paint tools.

   Surface Property Buttons

The surface property buttons control the properties of the surface that will be auditioned.

   More Button

Show or hide the advanced settings panel.

   Randomize Button

Click this button to audition a randomized set of materials.

   Texture Buttons

Use the texture buttons to specify a specific texture type for randomizing.

   Advanced Settings

With the advanced settings, you can control the ranges of various properties that are used for auditioning.

Clicking the Min or Max labels will copy the current material's settings into the Min or Max columns of the advanced settings. If you copy one material into Min and one into Max, the audtion will interpolate between the two materials (for each property enabled by the Surface Property Buttons).

Double-click on any blank portion of the Advanced Settings box to restore the defaults.

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Art Director - Material Page Info Dialog

Page Title

The title of the page as it will appear on the Material Window tab.

Libraries

Select the material library (or set of libraries) that will be shown on this page. Use All Libraries radio button to show all the libraries in the given directory. Select the Libraries Matching radio button and enter the filename in the edit box to show a specific library. Use wildcards in the filename edit box to match multiple files. For example, 'metal*' will match all files that start with the word 'metal'.

Retain Thumbs

If Retain Thumbs is not checked, Art Director will discard the material thumbnails for pages that are not currently displayed. Retain Thumbs requires more memory, but Art Director will be faster.

Store Small Thumbs

If Store Small Thumbs is checked, Art Director will store smaller versions of thumbnails for quick zoomed out views. Store Small Thumbs requires more memory, but Art Director will be faster when using the zoom features.

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Website: http://www.dnai.com/~sjmiles

Questions/Comments: sjmiles@dnai.com