Shade 10 Documentation

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Welcome to Shade 10 Documentation. This is a work in progress to expose all of the Shade 10 documentation in wiki format.

Contents 1 Shade 10 Beginner's Tutorials 2 Shade 10 User's Guide 3 Shade 10 Reference Manual 4 Shade 10 Plugin Manual 5 Shade 10 Quick Reference Chart 6 Shade 10 Supplemental Manual

Shade 10 Beginner's Tutorials

Tutorials for the beginning Shade user. Learn to create an apple, a drinking glass, a small figure and a horse, and apply appropriate settings to achieve realistic results.

• Chapter 1 An Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics

• Chapter 2 The Shade Interface

• Chapter 3 Basic Operations in the Figure Window

• Chapter 4 Modeling Basics

• Chapter 5 Modeling Objects

• Chapter 6 Surface Attributes, Cameras and Lighting

• Chapter 7 Rendering

• Chapter 8 Creating an Animation

• Chapter 9 Modeling with Polygon Meshes

Shade 10 User's Guide

The essential manual for beginning and intermediate Shade users, the User Guide takes you step by step into Shade’s user interface, workflow, and common operations.

• Preface Welcome to the World of 3D

• Chapter 1 The Basics

• Chapter 2 The Browser

• Chapter 3 Object Types

• Chapter 4 Moving and Copying Objects

• Chapter 5 Creating Line Objects

• Chapter 6 Creating Extruded and Revolved Objects

• Chapter 7 Working with Curved Surfaces

• Chapter 8 Polygon Meshes

• Chapter 9 Other Object Types

• Chapter 10 Boolean Modeling

• Chapter 11 Cameras

• Chapter 12 Lights

• Chapter 13 Surfaces

• Chapter 14 Background Settings

• Chapter 15 Rendering

• Chapter 16 Radiosity

• Chapter 17 Joints

• Chapter 18 Motion Settings

• Chapter 19 Rendering Animations

• Chapter 20 Import and Export

• Chapter 21 Scripts

• Chapter 22 Poser Integration

• Chapter 23 3D Sound

• Chapter 24 Managing Image Files

• Appendix 1 Cameras and Lenses

• Appendix 2 High Dynamic Range Images

Shade 10 Reference Manual

Explains the operation of Shade’s menus, tools, windows, buttons and commands in detail.

• Shade 10 The Basic Interface

• Shade 10 Preferences Dialog

• Shade 10 The Image Window

• Shade 10 The Radiosity Window

• Shade 10 The Control Bar

• Shade 10 The Toolbox

• Shade 10 The Polygon Mesh Toolbox

• Shade 10 Aggregate Palette

• Shade 10 The Camera Window

• Shade 10 The Distant Light Window

• Shade 10 The Background Window

• Shade 10 The Surface Window

• Shade 10 The Object Info Window

• Shade 10 The Skin Window

• Shade 10 The Motion Window

• Shade 10 The Browser

• Shade 10 ShadeExplorer

• Shade 10 Figure Controller Window

• Shade 10 The Alignment Window

• Shade 10 The Rulers

• Shade 10 The Color Window

• Shade 10 The Correction window

• Shade 10 PoserFusion

• Shade 10 SmartKinematics

• Shade 10 The Shortcut window

• Shade 10 The Command Palette

• Shade 10 The Script Window

• Shade 10 The Message Window

• Shade 10 TextEffector

• Shade 10 Effectors

• Shade 10 ShadeGrid Manager

• Shade 10 Batch Rendering

• Shade 10 The Menu Bar

• Shade 10 Contextual Menus

Shade 10 Plugin Manual

Documentation for all the plug-ins included with Shade.

• Shade 10 Plugin Manager

• Shade 10 Hair Salon

• Shade 10 RoomPlanner

• Shade 10 Regular Polyhedron

• Shade 10 Sweep Circle

• Shade 10 Spiral Line

• Shade 10 Bevel

• Shade 10 Mirror Copy

• Shade 10 Line Cut and Connect

• Shade 10 Transform

• Shade 10 Lattice Deformer

• Shade 10 Twist Deformer

• Shade 10 Auto Smooth

• Shade 10 SolidTexture

• Shade 10 ToonRenderer

• Shade 10 CALLISTO (Shade Professional)

• Shade 10 MetaParticles Renderer

• Shade 10 FogPlus

• Shade 10 DepthPlus

• Shade 10 Glow Effector

• Shade 10 Particle Effector

• Shade 10 Add Noise

• Shade 10 Extract Alpha

• Shade 10 Extract Z-depth

• Shade 10 Invert Image

• Shade 10 Burn Timecode

• Shade 10 Stereo Rendering

• Shade 10 Particle Physics

• Shade 10 PathConstraints

• Shade 10 Forced Balls

• Shade 10 Import and Export in Plugin

• Shade 10 LWO Converter

• Shade 10 BVH Importer

• Shade 10 GDL Exporter

• Shade 10 IGES Exporter

• Shade 10 POV-Ray Exporter

• Shade 10 Shockwave3D Exporter

• Shade 10 Viewpoint Exporter

• Shade 10 VRML Exporter

• Shade 10 DirectX Exporter

• Shade 10 Save PSD

Shade 10 Quick Reference Chart

This Quick Reference Card lists Shade 10 operations and their shortcut key combinations. Please refer to the list for Windows or Mac OS X according to your operating system.

• Shade 10 Figure Window

• Shade 10 Mouse Wheel Operations

• Shade 10 Numeric Input for a Slider

• Shade 10 Objects

• Shade 10 Manipulating Control Points in Modify Mode

• Shade 10 Browser Window

• Shade 10 Rendering ref

• Shade 10 Image Window

• Shade 10 Control Windows

• Shade 10 Aggregate Palette ref

• Shade 10 Color Operations

• Shade 10 Camera Window

• Shade 10 Distant Light Window

• Shade 10 Motion Window

• Shade 10 Prefix and Part Special Characters

Shade 10 Supplemental Manual

This section details new features introduced in Shade 10.

• Shade 10 MultiPass Rendering

• Shade 10 Work Plane

• Shade 10 Hair Salon Update

• Shade 10 Toon Renderer Update

• Shade 10 COLLADA Exporter

• Shade 10 Epix Exporter

• Shade 10 Hanako