More Tools for Your Canvas
Sculpt Organic Surface
Art users can now create more sophisticated surfaces and have more control over those surfaces. An organic surface drives through two open contours, with the ability to have a dynamically adjusted cross section (Bezier curve) stretched or scaled between the drive curves.
B-Spline Dynamic Cross Sections
B-Spline has been added to the dynamic cross section library, allowing you to create a new category of complex cross sections. Many simple and complex shapes can be created with this new cross section.
Move Art Surface Operations in the Art Manager
Use the Up/Down arrows in the Art Manager’s third toolbar to move Art Surface Operations (ASOs) up and down the list. Select the ASO to highlight it, then select the Up arrow to move it up the list or the Down arrow to move it down the list. Regenerate the list when you have your ASOs in the correct position. This will help you in keeping large projects organized.
Using Colors and Bold Text
When entering an Art Surface Operation name, you can also select a color or bold the name in the Art Manager. For example, you can name the first operation in a group using blue, bold text, and the rest in that group will be blue. The next group would be assigned a new color. This will make it much easier to manage complex Art projects with many ASOs.
Art Shading and Material Mapping Improvements
You can now map materials to Art surfaces, allowing you to show the Art model in the material specified by the customer. You can also simultaneously blend, show material, add reflection, adjust color and opacity, and see them all applied to the model in real time.
Vertex Buffers
If you have an OpenGL graphics card, selecting the Vertex buffer check box on the Surface Display Options Dialog increases your speed when working on large Art files.
