PRT Loader Objects Explorer¶
Available in: Krakatoa v1.0.0 and higher.
Selecting PRT Loaders¶
- The PRT Loader Objects rollout in the Krakatoa Explorers floater will display dynamically all PRT Loaders in the scene.
- Adding, Renaming, Editing and Deleting Loaders will be reflected by the content of the list box.
- Selecting Loaders in the Scene and selecting one or more loaders in the listbox will be synchronized by default.
- To disable this behaviour, uncheck the [>Synch. Selection] option.
Property Display¶
- The name of each Loader will always be displayed inside [] brackets.
- The list box will only display one set of properties at a time to avoid cluttering the view.
- The available property sets are:
- Particle Files: number of file sequences followed by their file names without path.
- Render Settings: on state, percentage, limit toggle and value in thousands and Loading mode. When off, the rest will not be shown.
- Viewport Settings: on state, percentage, limit toggle and value in thousands and Loading mode. When off, the rest will not be shown.
- Particle Display Mode: shows small, large dots or velocities display in the viewport.
- Particle Color Source: viewport and renderer particle color source mode.
- Timing: Frame Offset plus Load Whole File Sequence or Load Single Frame Only mode.
- Options: Use Transformations mode
- Missing Frames In Scene: Displays a list of all missing frames with respect to the current scene segment.
- Missing Frames In Render: Displays a list of all missing frames with respect to the list of frames to be rendered.
- ‘Test Renderable State: Displays OK if the object is renderable or the reason the object would not render, including renderable and visible to camera properties, hidden or hidden by layer state, enabled in renderer option turned off, Render Percentage or Limit set to zero etc.
- The last three display modes can be used to detect potential problems when rendering the scene.
- The displayed frames in the “Missing…” modes take into account the frame offset and playback graph animation for all Particle Loaders.
- Switching the properties display mode via the drop-down list will refresh the list.
Selecting and Deselecting Loaders In the Listbox¶
- The list box allows multiple selections
- To select more than one entry, hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and click multiple items.
- You can also use the Shift key to select a range of items between two clicks.
- A set of 3 buttons underneath the list box provide fast selection operations:
- Select All Loaders: selects all Loaders in the list box. If the [>Synch. Selection] option is checked, this will also select all Loaders in the scene.
- Deselect All Loaders: deselects all Loaders in the list box and optionally in the scene if the [>Synch. Selection] option is checked.
- Invert Loaders Selection: selects the unselected and deselects the selected Loaders.
Enable/Disable Selected Loaders In Viewport and Rendering¶
- A set of 4 buttons in this group of controls can be used to control the display of the Loaders in the viewports and in the final rendering.
- Enable In Viewport: enables the viewport display for all Loaders selected in the list box.
- Disable In Viewport: disables the viewport display for all Loaders selected in the list box.
- Enable In Render: enables the rendering for all Loaders selected in the list box.
- Disable In Render: disables the rendering for all Loaders selected in the list box.
Change Mode Of Selected Loaders for Viewport and Rendering¶
- A set of drop-down lists and [Set Mode] buttons allow the user to quickly switch the particle loading and color source settings of any number of selected Particle Loaders.
- To change the mode
- select one or more Loaders from the list
- select the mode from the corresponding drop-down list
- press the [Set Mode] button to the right of the drop-down list
