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CHAPTER 1 GETTING TO KNOW VIZ
On the right side of the Custom UI and Defaults Switcher dialog box, you’ll see a list of UI
schemes you have already saved. Here, you can conveniently select which UI scheme you’d like to
use. UI schemes hold in one place all the customization you can make to the keyboard hotkeys, tool-
bar, quad menus, standards menus, and color schemes. To make changes to an existing UI scheme,
you’ll use the Customize User Interface dialog box.
1. Choose Customize  Customize User Interface to display the dialog box shown in Figure 1.47.
Figure 1.47
The Customize User
Interface dialog box
2. Click each of the tabs at the top of this dialog box to become familiar with all the ways you
can customize your user interface (changes can be made to the keyboard, toolbars, quads,
menus, and colors). If you do decide to make any changes, simply click the Save button on
the tab in this dialog box to record your specific changes to disk. Each tab saves as a different
file type which controls different aspects of the user interface.
3. Choose Customize  Save Custom UI Scheme. Open the Save As Type pop-up as shown in
Figure 1.48. You will notice five different file formats that can be saved (and loaded) through
Save (and Load) Custom UI Scheme from the Customize menu. Each one of the lower four
formats —UI File (*.cui), Menu File (*.mnu), Color File (*.clr), and Shortcut File (*.kbd)—
corresponds to each of the tabs in the Customize User Interface dialog—Toolbars and
Quads, Menus, Colors, and Keyboard, respectively.
Rendering and mental ray
See Chapter 11 to learn more about the radiosity renderer and Chapter 12 to learn how to use the mental
ray renderer.
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