Shade 9 Documentation

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Welcome to Shade 9 Documentation. This is a work in progress to expose all of the Shade 9 documentation in wiki format.

Contents 1 Shade 9 Beginner's Tutorials 2 Shade 9 User's Guide 3 Shade 9 Reference Manual 4 Shade 9 Plugin Manual 5 Shade 9 Quick Reference Chart

Shade 9 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 9 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. Ch_2

• 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_Ch15

• 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 9 Reference Manual

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

• The Basic Interface
• Preferences Dialog
• The Image Window
• The Radiosity Window
• The Control Bar
• The Toolbox
• The Polygon Mesh Toolbox
• Aggregate Palette
• The Camera Window
• The Distant Light Window
• The Background Window
• The Surface Window
• The Object Info Window
• The Skin Window
• The Motion Window
• The Browser
• ShadeExplorer
• Figure Controller Window
• The Alignment Window
• The Rulers
• The Color Window
• The Correction window
• PoserFusion
• SmartKinematics
• The Shortcut window
• The Command Palette
• The Script Window
• The Message Window
• TextEffector
• Effectors
• ShadeGrid Manager
• Batch Rendering
• The Menu Bar
• Contextual Menus

Shade 9 Plugin Manual

Documentation for all the plug-ins included with Shade.

• Plugin Manager

• Hair Salon

• RoomPlanner

• Regular Polyhedron

• Sweep Circle

• Spiral Line

• Bevel

• Mirror Copy

• Line Cut and Connect

• Transform

• Lattice Deformer

• Twist Deformer

• Auto Smoothv

• UV Mapping Editor

• SolidTexture

• ToonRenderer

• CALLISTO (Shade Professional)

• MetaParticles Renderer

• FogPlus

• DepthPlus

• Glow Effector

• Particle Effector

• Add Noise

• Extract Alpha

• Extract Z-depth

• Invert Image

• Burn Timecode

• Stereo Rendering

• Particle Physics

• PathConstraints

• Forced Balls

• Import and Export in Plugin

• LWO Converter

• BVH Importer

• GDL Exporter

• IGES Exporter

• POV-Ray Exporter

• Shockwave3D Exporter

• Viewpoint Exporter

• VRML Exporter

• DirectX Exporter

• Save PSD

Shade 9 Quick Reference Chart

This Quick Reference Card lists Shade 9 operations and their shortcut key combinations. Please refer to the list for Windows or Mac OS X according to your operating system.

• Figure Window

• Mouse Wheel Operations

• Numeric Input for a Slider

• Objects

• Manipulating Control Points in Modify Mode

• Browser Window

• Rendering ref

• Image Window

• Control Windows

• Aggregate Palette ref

• Color Operations

• Camera Window

• Distant Light Window

• Motion Window

• Special Characters Used to Prefix Object and Part Names -Boolean Rendering, Surface Subdivision and Others (Windows / Mac OS X)