Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 7

Using the Node View

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Thumbnails

Refresh
Selected
Thumbnails

R

Activates/refreshes the thumbnails for selected
nodes.

Show/Hide
Selected
Thumbnails

T

Turns on/off selected nodes. If you haven’t yet
created a thumbnail (R), this does nothing.

View RGB
Channels

C

Displays the RGB channels.

View Alpha
Channels

A

Displays the alpha channel.

Groups

Group/
Ungroup
Selected Nodes

G

Visually collapses selected nodes into one node.
When saved out again, they are remembered as
several nodes. To ungroup, press G again.

Group Selected
Nodes and
Maximize

Option-G or
Alt-G

Groups nodes and automatically maximizes the
group, for immediate editing.

Maximize/
Minimize
Selected
Groups

M

Opens a group into a subwindow.

Consolidate
Selected
Groups

Shift-G

Consolidates two or more selected groups into a
larger group.

Ungroup
selected
Nodes/Groups

Command-G or
Control-G

Turns a group of nodes back into a collection of
individual, ungrouped nodes.

Ignore/
UnIgnore
Selected Nodes

I

Turns off selected nodes when activated. Select
them again and press I to reactivate the nodes.
You can also load the parameters into the
Parameter View and enable ignoreNode.

Extract
Selected Nodes

E

Pulls the active nodes from the tree, and
reconnects the remaining nodes to each other.

Save Selection
as Script

S

Saves the selected nodes as a script.

Force Selected
FileIn Reload

When an image is changed on disk and you have
already looked at that image in the interface,
Shake does not recognize that the image has
changed. Selecting these two functions forces the
checking of the date stamp for the images on
disk.

Force All FileIn
Reload

See above.

Macro

Make Macro

Shift-M

Launches the MacroMaker with the selected
nodes as the macro body.

Shortcut
Menu

Option

Keyboard

Desription

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