Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 19)

Preface Shake 4 Documentation and Resources 19
Note: This manual uses the term “right-click” to describe how to access shortcut menu
commands.
The following table lists the user manual notation system.
Using a Stylus
Shake is designed to be used with a graphics tablet and stylus.
To optimize the Shake interface for use with a tablet and stylus:
1 In the guiControls subtree of the Globals tab, enable virtualSliderMode.
2 Set the parameter virtualSliderSpeed to 0.
Notation Example
Hot keys/keyboard commands To break a tangent handle in the Curve Editor, Control-click the
handle.
Some hot keys/keyboard
commands vary depending on
the platform. The Mac OS X
command appears first, followed
by the Linux command. The two
hot keys/commands are
separated by a forward slash.
In general, the Command and
Control keys are
interchangeable.
In the Node View, you can press Control-Option-click / Control-Alt-
click to zoom in and out.
Menu selections are indicated
by angle brackets. To open a script, choose File > Open Script.
File paths and file names appear
in italics. Also, directories and
file paths are divided by forward
slashes. Temp files are saved in the ..//var/tmp/ directory.
Node groups (Tool tabs) appear
in the default font, followed by
the name of the node in italics.
A dash appears between the tab
and node names. In the Node View, select the Cloud node, and insert a Transform–
CornerPin node.
Command-line functions appear
in italics. shake -exec my_script -t 1-240
Modifications to preferences
files appear in italics. Add the following lines to a .h file in your startup directory:
script.cineonTopDown = 1;
script.tiffTopDown = 1;