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Table Of Contents
- Welcome to MAGIX 3D Maker
- Support
- Working with MAGIX 3D Maker
- How To ...
- Open a new document
- Change the text
- Rotate and position the graphic
- Light the graphic
- Color the graphic
- Resize the graphic
- Add bevels & extrude
- Select characters
- Add shadows
- Create animations
- Save and export
- Importing 2D objects
- Apply the style of an existing graphic
- Create buttons, boards, boards + holes and borders
- Create screensavers
- Create Flash files
- Customize
- Reference Section
- Copyright Information
The standard toolbar
Many of these are standard Windows options such as load and save.
To display or hide this toolbar, Use Standard toolbar on the Window
menu.
Options
New
—open a new graphic, displaying the default MAGIX 3D
Maker graphic ready for customizing.
Open
—open an existing X3D file. Or import a drawn shape in EMF,
WEB, WMF or XAR format and extrude the shape.
Save
—save the graphic in X3D format. MAGIX 3D Maker can
reload X3D files for future editing. (MAGIX 3D Maker cannot
edit exported files.)
Export bitmap
(if MAGIX 3D Maker shows a static image) – export the
graphic in BMP, CUR, Flash SWF, GIF, ICO, JPG or PNG
format for use on the web or in another program.
Animation picker
—opens the animation picker. An easy way to copy the
animation settings from an existing X3D file to the current
graphic.
Style picker
—opens the style picker. An easy way to import selected
settings (such as colors or bevel) from an existing X3D file.
Undo
—if you make a mistake, click undo to correct that mistake.
MAGIX 3D Maker has multi-level undo so you can discard a
sequence of changes—great for experimenting.
Redo
—if you click undo too many times, click redo to restore each
change in sequence.
Show/hide cursor—display a cursor in the text. This lets you
select and change characters in the middle of the text. (See
select characters
)
Start/stop animation
—preview the animation within MAGIX 3D Maker (and you
can still edit the design while it's moving).
Show/hide lighting
—display the three lights that shine on the faces of the graphic.
You can then drag the lights to change the lighting.
Note: if the graphic has a shadow, a fourth, striped light that
creates the shadow is also shown.
Display as Flash
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