Keyboard Commands
 | Key commands are only accepted when the WYSIWYG NPR rendering window has focus! They are case-sensitive. Tab, Arrows and modifiers (Ctrl, etc.) affect GUI windows which have focus. |
Global Commands
These commands operate under all modes.
- Quit (q)
Terminates the application.
- Save scene (s)
Save the entire scene to out.jot.
- Write mesh (w)
Write the mesh under the mouse cursor to out.sm.
- Next Mode (.)
Change to the next Editing Mode (e.g. Basecoat Edition Mode).
- Previous Mode (,)
Change to the previous Editing Mode (e.g. Basecoat Edition Mode).
- Render Mode Menu (M)
Toggle display of the Render Mode Menu. Allows global override control of various shaders. (Select Textured Patch to render with NPR stylization shaders/strokes.)
- Global Parameters Menu (v)
Toggle display of the Global Parameters Menu.
- Reset View (V)
Adjust camera such that entire scene fits in render window.
- Toggle Animator Mode (X)
Engage frame stepping of exported animation (see Tutorial).
- Change Selected Style (')
Cycles through various selection representations (e.g. wireframe, bounding box, etc.)
- Toggle Repair (`)
Toggles whether or not system attempts to "repair" strokes with tight bends (work in progress...).
- Toggle Paper Shader (p)
Toggles globally enabled/defeat paper shader.
- Toggle Antialiasing (a)
Toggles full scene antialiasing.
- Antialiasing Mode (A)
Cycle through the available Antialiasing Modes. (All of which are slow without a hardware accumulation buffer.)
Line Mode Commands
See section on Line Mode.
- Edit Selected (h)
Edit the sketched offset stylization of selected line types.
- Undo Sketch (Esc)
Remove the last mark from the current set of sketched offsets.
- Apply Sketch (y)
Apply the current set of sketched offsets to the chosen line type, or generate decals.
- Apply Current (u)
Apply the current stroke parameters (as seen in the Preview window) to the currently selected entity.
- Get Selected (j)
Replace the current stroke parameters (as seen in the Preview window) with those of the currently selected entity.
Animation Commands
See tutorial on Animation.
- Toggle Animator Mode (X)
Engage frame stepping of exported animation (see Tutorial).
- Back 1 Frame (4)
Step 1 frame backward.
- Forward 1 Frame (6)
Step 1 frame forward.
- Back 10 Frames (2)
Step 10 frames backward.
- Forward 10 Frames (8)
Step 10 frames forward.
- First Frame (5)
Go to first frame.
- Play (/)
Play entire animation.
- Stop (+)
Stop playing animation.
- Toggle Sync (-)
When engaged, system time is synchronized with frame number. When disengaged, system time is interactive real-time.
- Toggle Disk (*)
Toggle if playback causes frames to be rendered to disk. (Requires Sync Mode to be enabled.)