Open new sequence – Loads a new cache file or sequence of files for preview. Timeline – Changes the current frame of the cached sequence. Detail Reduction –Decreases the grid and particle detail in the preview. A value of 0 means no reduction. Increase this value if the interface starts to lag due to the simulation being very large. Auto Reduction – Enables automatic adjustment of the Detail Reduction parameter to improve display performance. The preview detail will be reduced up to a point where the preview will display fast without blocking the interface. Note that the detail will only decrease automatically, but will not increase. Auto Range – When enabled, automatically adjusts the preview ranges of visible channels for the current frame so that important data is always visible and the preview is always quick. Flip Y and Z axes – When enabled, flips the Y and Z axis of the cached transformation. This is useful when the cache was created with a different up axis (for example, in Maya ). Reset Camera – Resets the position of the Viewport camera. Show Box – When enabled, displays the bounding box of the cache file in the Viewport. Graph Cells –When enabled and Show Box is enabled, displays a lattice with the cell sizes on the sides of the simulator's box. Show only the overlap of – When enabled, all channels in a cell must meet the selected threshold conditions to visualize the cell. Show Smoke – Enables the representation of the smoke. Show Temperature – Enables the representation of the temperature. Show Fuel – Enables the representation of the fuel. Show Velocity Streamlines – Traces the velocity field of the cache files to generate a streamline preview. Show Velocity – Enables the representation of the velocity. RGB – Enables the representation of the RGB channel. Draw just a slice – When enabled, only a voxel-thick cross-section of the grid becomes visible. This allows for a better view of occluded details and can help when previewing very rich data such as velocity fields. Slice Level – Specifies the offset of the slice from the center of the grid in voxels Browse – Opens a browser window to specify the directory and the name template for the output preview image files. Save – Save an image preview for the range of the entire cached sequence. |