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Camera windows

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Changing the camera view

The camera view in each window can now be transformed by selecting from the camera menu bar.
Selecting one of the options will hide the cursor and activate the window. By holding the middle mouse button pressed and moving the mouse, the action will be performed. Available functions:
move
See move in the camera menu for further explanation

track
See track in the camera menu for further explanation

zoom
See zoom in the camera menu for further explanation

orbit
See orbit coi in the camera menu for further explanation

reset
See reset camera in the camera menu for further explanation

ctrl
Pops up the Camera Control window.

Changing the camera window size

Cameras can be resized by dragging one of the window corners using the mouse.

Changing the mouse sensitivity while changing the camera view

During transformation of the camera view using move, track, orbit, or zoom, the mouse sensitivity can be changed interactively.
Pressing ctrl while dragging the mouse during transformation of the camera will increase the mouse sensitivity.
Pressing <shift> will decrease the mouse sensitivity.
reset will restore the mouse sensitivity.

Hiding and quitting camera windows

Camera windows can be closed by using the keyboard keys:
<alt> <F9>(on SGI machines)
<open>(on SUN machines)
Camera windows can be restored by:
clicking the bottom bar of the hidden camera icon (on SGI machines)
<open>(on SUN machines)
Camera windows can be removed by using the keys:
<alt><right mouse>(keep mouse in camera window and select quit from the pop-up menu)

Options

The following options are available when clicking the options menu:
extra camera for additional cameras.
save will save the current layout settings to a preference file, so these settings are used at the beginning of each GIG session with the current project.
reset will reset layout settings.

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