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Continuing on with techniques for hiding and viewing objects. Now, what is this hide frozen objects feature? Let's scroll down a little bit here, if this isn't showing on your screen, if it's like this then you need to click that plus sign to show it. We've freeze objects in order to make them non-selectable. So for example, let me select the head here and then freeze selected. And notice that it turned grey, scroll down a little bit more to the display properties, and you can see that it says show frozen in gray, and that's checked. So by default, frozen objects are shown in grey and now we cannot select the head. It's frozen and frozen objects cannot be hidden or unhidden by the usual buttons here. We can hide them, all frozen objects, by checking this box and we unhide them by deselecting that box. and that is the only way to hide and unhide frozen objects. Now if you are hiding and unhiding objects quite frequently, you might want to have these tools handy all the time. If that's the case, go up to the tools and to the display floater. That brings up the hide, unhide, freeze, and unfreeze and hide frozen objects. All the same options that we had over here, except that you can go to any other place that you want and that display floater still remains invisible. Why don't we unfreeze that head to bring it back. Unfreeze all. And now I'll get rid of the display floater by clicking on that X in the upper right hand corner, because we are not going to be hiding or unhiding things anymore. Let's look at a couple of other features having to do with the viewing objects. We have seen how zoom extents and zoom extents all will zoom to the point where all the objects in the scene are visible. Another tool for zooming is the zoom tool, that gives you control over how much to zoom in the scene. Click on the zoom tool, you click and hold and then go upwards to zoom in or click and hold and drag downwards to zoom out. If you want to zoom all your view ports together click on the zoom all tool. And it's the same thing, you click and hold, drag upwards to zoom in, release to see your object, click, hold and drag downwards to zoom out. Another useful tool, not available in perspective windows, it's only available in the other windows called orthographic windows, they don't show any perspective, is the region zoom tool that is right here. It's a magnifying glass with a little dotted line around it. Click on that region zoom and then you can define an area with a bounding box that you want to zoom in on. Click, hold and drag out the box. Here I am zooming in on the mouth and most of the nose and when you release, the object is magnified. The prospective window also has a feature that the others don't have and that's right here, field of view. Field of view is very much like zoom in and zoom out, except that as you zoom in, in addition to getting a smaller amount of the total scene and a larger more detailed view of it, you also get less perspective flare, which is the distortion, which is inserted into the scene, in order to give the illusion of perspective. And as you zoom out, you get more perspective flare. And let's use Alt W to maximize the perspective window. Then click and hold and drag downwards to get a wider field of view and you can see there is more distortion. More perspective flare, if you really see that in the grid, and then click and hold and drag upwards, you get a tighter field of view and less distortion, less perspective flare. And the last thing right now that I'd like to show you about viewing objects is, how to change the view that's displayed in a particular view port. So for example, let's go over here to the left view port. You know that our face is facing over towards the right. If I right click on this label, left in the upper left hand corner here, right click on that, I can go to the views option. And you can see that left is clicked, selected, because that's the view we’re in. Why don’t we go and click right. It’s now showing us a right hand view, which makes it look like the head is facing towards the left. t's the view we’re in. Why don’t we go and click right. It’s now showing us a right hand view, which makes it look like the head is facing towards the left.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 6
Author: Doug Sahlin
SKU: 33463
ISBN: 1-932072-61-6
Release Date: 2003-11-26
Duration: 7 hrs / 123 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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