Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 1

An Overview of the Shake User Interface

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Note: Each Viewer you create uses additional memory, so you may want to close
higher-resolution Viewers when rendering. Also, more open Viewers can slow the
display rate due to the increased processing demands of updating each Viewer
simultaneously.

To close a Viewer:

m

Click the Close Window button in the selected Viewer’s title bar.

When you close a Viewer, you release whatever RAM that Viewer was utilizing.

To bring a Viewer to the foreground:

m

Click anywhere within that Viewer.

When a Viewer is selected, its title bar is highlighted.

To display the image from another node in a Viewer:

1

Double-click anywhere within the Viewer you want to use.

Its title bar becomes highlighted to show that it is selected.

2

Do one of the following:

Double-click a node in the Node View to display its image in the currently selected
Viewer and to display its parameters in the Parameters1 tab.

Click the left side of a node to display its image in the currently selected Viewer
without loading its parameters into the Parameters tab.

Close Window button

This viewer is selected.

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