MAIN MENU-BAR


The main-menu of POVLAB has the seven entries. These are: GENERAL, FILE, DISPLAY, INTERFACE, TOOLS, OBJECTS and HELP. The following paragraphs describe some of the functions, availiable via the menus.

General (used for...)
  • setting up the environment variables
  • setting up the virtual memory
  • configuring the mouse
  • displaying scene statistics
  • launching the image-viewer
  • launching the text-/scene-editor
  • shelling out to the DOS command-line
  • exiting POVLAB
File (used for...)
  • starting a new scene
  • renaming existing scenes
  • loading/saving/merging scenes
  • saving a selection as new scene
  • exporting a scene to a *.POV-file
  • setting the tab-width for exported POV-files
  • switching the auto-save-on-exit function ON/OFF
Display (used for...)
  • redrawing the viewports
  • switching the axis-/grid-/dot-grid-display ON/OFF
  • selecting the display-mode (normal, fast cubic)
  • switching the omni-/spot-/area-/cylindrical- light-display ON/OFF
  • setting up the amount of displayed faces for meshed-objects (torus etc)
  • accessing the image-controls

Interface (used for...)
  • setting up the colors of the POVLAB-user-interface
  • switching between 16-/256-color-interface
  • selecting the image for a textured user interface
  • switching the inline-help-messages ON/OFF
  • setting up, whether POVLAB starts/exits with smooth fade-ins/-outs
  • selecting the interface-resolution (640/800/1024)
Tools (used for...)
  • copying objects by translation/rotation
  • extruding 2D-shapes into 3D-shapes
  • aligning objects to other objects/paths
  • creating 3D-text-objects
  • running a tool from the plugin-library
  • creating/editing B-Splines/vertices
  • smoothing the triangles RAW-objects
Objects (used for...)
  • pasting predefined POVLAB-objects into the current scene
  • creating/altering heightfield-objects
? (Help) (used for...)
  • accessing the help-display

Quick-Info: MAIN MENU-BAR (Page 1)

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