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Maxwell Render 2.5 User Manual
Chapter 12. Maxwell Studio | 98
12.01.02 Toolbar
F.01 The Toolbar
The Toolbar in Maxwell Studio displays a selection of the most commonly-used tools,
divided into six categories. Use the icons to:
• Create a new scene, open an existing scene or save the current scene.
• Undo, redo or open the Preferences panel.
• Choose a selection mode: object, triangle, material, UV set or instances.
• Translate, rotate the scene, edit object or pivot or choose between world and local
coordinates.
• Set the render mode: in Maxwell application, using the Network, or rendering directly
on the Studio viewport. Rendering your scene in the Maxwell application gives you
an extra control over the rendering process, as it allows you to control the Multilight
sliders, use scripting, SimuLens, etc, and will be the main option for most projects.
Sending the scene to be rendered in the Network System allows you to use several
computers working together in a render farm.
• Rendering in the viewport gives you feedback of your render directly on your Studio
viewport.
• Launch the Interactive Preview (Maxwell Fire) which gives you interactive feedback
about your scene, by displaying a great quality preview render of your scene in
seconds. This makes it much easier and faster to adjust your materials, adjust the
environment conditions, set up the emitters and see the results in real time.
These icon groups are customizable to let you display them in the way you prefer. You can
change their sizes using Preferences> General> Icons Size. You can drag sections by their
borders on the left side to rearrange their order in the Toolbar. It is also possible to right-
click in the Toolbar to choose which buttons you would like to display (File, Edit, Select,
Transform, Render, Layout).
12.01.03 Customizing the Layout
Maxwell Studio’s layout is fully customizable. To open or close any of the panels you can
either go to the Window menu and switch it on or off, or right-click on the title bar of
any open panel and choose the panels from the menu. Please note that in order to open
another viewport, you have to chose this option from the Window menu, or press the
shortcut key Ctrl+1. (The Ctrl key in Windows corresponds to the Cmd key in Mac OSX,
so wherever the Ctrl key is used on a shortcut, Mac users should use the Command key).
F.01 Display modes and grid
Moving and docking panels
Panels can be moved to another place by clicking their title bar and simply dragging &
dropping them in another area of the layout. The layout will automatically re-shape to
allocate the new window. This makes it very fast and easy to congure a layout.
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