■ ZAppLink 191SpotLight has its own navigation controls.
To move the SpotLight itself, click in the center of
the orange circle. This will place the SpotLight as
well as set the source for operations like Scale and
Rotate. These functions will occur around the cen-
ter of the orange circle at the center of the SpotLight
(Figure 5.57).
To move a texture, click on the texture itself to
activate it. The texture will take on a red rectangle.
Now click and drag anywhere on the texture to move it.
SpotLight consists of a ring of buttons. Each
button represents a function that can be applied to
the selected image (Figure 5.57). Click a button and
its function name will appear in the center of the
ring. You will use these functions to alter the shape
or appearance of the texture reference swatch before
using it to apply color to the model. Table 5.5 shows
the function of each button.
Table 5.5: Parts of the SpotLightMenu Option Function
1 Rotate Rotates the image.
2 Scale Scales the object around the center point of the orange circle.
Hold the Ctrl key for a nonproportional scale effect.
3 Pin SpotLight Pin the texture so the image does not need to be above the target mesh.
The texture will be drawn out from the center of the SpotLight wheel.
4 SpotLight Radius Controls falloff of image edges in Projection mode.
5 Opacity Controls the image opacity.
6 Fade Controls fading of multiple images.
7 Tile Proportional Tiles all the loaded textures proportionally to their size.
8 Tile Selected Enlarges the selected image to full size and tiles the remaining images.
9 Tile Unified Tiles all images the same size.
10 Front Places the selected image in front of the other textures.
11 Back Places the selected image behind the other textures.
12 Delete Deletes the selected image from SpotLight.
13 Flip H Flips the image horizontally.
14 Flip V Flips the image vertically.
15 Tile H Tiles the image horizontally. If you hold Shift, the texture will tile with a
ratio aspect.
16 Tile V Tiles the image vertically. If you hold Shift, the texture will tile with a
ratio aspect.
17 Grid Creates a grid on the texture with squares colored with the currently
selected primary swatch.
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Center circle
Click and drag to
move to the spotlight
Function buttons
Figure 5.57 The parts of the SpotLight
continues