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Mo ve is a flyout. The alternative buttons constrain
texturepointstomoveeitherverticallyor
horizontally.
Rotate—Rotates the selected points.
Scale—Scales the selected points. This is a flyout
that lets you choose between uniform scale,
nonuniform scale in the surface’s U dimension, or
nonuniform scale in the surface’s V dimension.
Pan—Pans the surface view.
Zoom—Zooms in or out on the surface view.
Zoom Wi ndow—Zoomstoawindowyoudragon
the surface v iew.
Zoom Ex t ents—Zooms to the extents of the surface.
Lock Selection—Locks the active selection set. You
canturnthisonsoyoudon’taccidentallyselect
other points while you’re transforming a selection
set.
Prev iew—When on (the default), your edits are
alsoshowninviewports.Inviewports,selected
texturepointsaredisplayedinred,andtheothers
are displayed in green.
Texture Surface Image
Below the toolbar is a 2D image showing the points
of the texture surface. You can edit the texture
surface as you edit sub-objects in viewports.
Ifyouright-clickwhileintheimage,thepopup
menu lets you switch between Select, Move,
Rotate, and Scale. This is an alternative to using
the toolbar.
If your mouse has a middle button, you c an use it
topaninthiswindow.
Texture Sur face Controls
Thecontrolsbelowthesurfaceimageeditthe
texture surface.
Remove Animation—Removes animation
controllers from the selected texture points.
Reset to Defaults—Resets user-defined mapping
to the default.
Rebuild—Displays the Rebuild Texture Surface
dialog (page 1–1238)
, which rebuilds the texture
surface and lets you change the number of CV
rows or columns.
Insert R ow, I nser t Col., Insert Both—Click one of
these buttons to insert a row or column of points,
or both at once, into the surface. Insertion adds
points without moving other rows and columns.
While you refine the surface, the operation is
previewed the same way Insert is previewed in 3D
view por ts.
Delete R ow, Delete Col., Delete B oth—Click one of
these buttons to delete a row or column of points,
or both at once.
Join Cur ves Dialog
Modify panel > Select NURBS curve sub-object. > Cur ve
Common rollout > Join button > Join two curves in a
viewport.
This dialog lets you choose the way to join two
curves.
Interf ace