Camera Visibility Property Editor

Components | Clusters | Attributes | Transforms | Playback Info

Controls the visibility of various types of elements and attributes in the 3D camera views. Applies to different views depending on how it is displayed:

To set options for all open geometry views at once: Choose View Visibility Options (All Cameras) from the main menu.
To set options for a specific view: Choose Visibility Options from the Show menu (eye icon).

For additional information, see Displaying Types of Elements and Other Data.

Objects

Curves	Displays curve objects.
NURBS Surfaces	Displays NURBS surface objects.
Polygon Meshes	Displays polygon mesh objects.
Implicit Geometry	Displays implicit objects.
Nulls	Displays nulls.
Lights	Displays lights.
Cameras	Displays cameras.
Point Clouds	Displays point clouds (ICE particles).
Hair	Displays hair objects.
Instances	Displays model instances.
Annotation Objects	Displays annotation objects.
Environment	Uses the current pass' Environment shader for background and reflections in High Quality display mode.

Control Objects

Transform Groups	Displays transform groups, which are nulls that are parents of a hierarchy.
Chain Roots	Displays chain roots.
Chain Bones	Displays chain bones.
Chain Effectors	Displays chain effectors.
Lattices	Displays lattices.
Waves	Displays wave objects.
Texture Controls	Displays texture controls.
Other Control Objects	Displays other control objects, such as forces and volume deformers.

Invisible Objects

Show Attributes and Components

All object attributes set as visible will display even if the object itself is not drawn.

Components

The checkboxes in the left column affect the display of selected objects, and the right column affect unselected objects.

Points	Displays points (vertices) on geometric objects, even if the current selection filter is not Points.
Knots	Displays knots on NURBS curves and surfaces.
Bezier Handles While Drawing Points/Knots	Displays Bezier handles when you draw points or knots in a 3D view. This only works for knots with a multiplicity of 3.
Sampled Points	Displays sampled points (texture UVs).
Tag Points	Highlights selected (tagged) points, even if the current selection filter is not Points.
Invisible Components	Shows components (for example, polygons) that have been hidden. This includes clusters that have a Visibility property applied.
Show Polynode Bisectors	Displays a short line bisecting each polynode in 3D views. There is one polynode for each polygon attached to a point. The options determine when the bisectors are displayed: Show While Drawing Sampled Points displays bisectors when samples (texture UVs) are visible in a 3D view. Show While Drawing Points displays bisectors when points are visible in a 3D view. This option is useful for distinguishing between points when selecting or moving a point that overlaps others. Show While Drawing Selected Points displays bisectors on only points that are selected in a 3D view. Never Show does not display bisectors in a 3D view. You can set options for the size and pitch of polynode bisectors on the Component tab of the Display Preferences.

Clusters

Information is shown only for selected objects.

Point Clusters	Displays the point clusters of all selected objects.
Edge Clusters	Displays the edge clusters of all selected objects.
Polygon Clusters	Displays the polygon clusters of all selected objects.
Knots Clusters	Displays the knot clusters of all selected objects.
Sampled Points Clusters	Displays the sampled-point (texture UV) clusters of all selected objects.

Attributes

Displays various attributes of the objects in a scene. These can be useful when you are working on specific aspects of particular elements. However, displaying too many attributes can clutter the display and slow down interaction. The checkboxes in the left column affect the display of selected objects, and the right column affect unselected objects.

Some of these attributes may be obscured unless the display mode is Wireframe or Bounding Box. With other display modes, you can activate Use XRay Shading on the Display Options tab of the Options.

Name	Displays the names of objects.
Attachments	Displays whether objects have annotations or synoptic properties: [S] indicates that the object has one or more synoptic properties. [A] indicates that the object has one or more annotation properties. [S,A] indicates that the object has both synoptic and annotation properties.
User Keywords	Displays key word applied with Set User Keyword(s) in the context menu of a 3D view, explorer, or schematic.
Relations	Displays dotted lines between objects, showing expression, constraint, link, modeling, and other relations. If you select a constrained object, a white link is shown between it and the object to which it is constrained. If you select a constraining object, a light purple link is displayed between it and the object that is constrained to it.
Relation Info	Displays text labels indicating the type of relation between objects. For some types of relation, additional information may also be displayed.
Animation Cues	Colored triangles that provide information about an object's animated transformations, and let you open the animation editor or select an action clip.
Cones	Displays outlines representing the area covered by spotlights and the camera frustum (see Displaying the Camera Cones (Frustum) [Cameras and Motion Blur]).
Collision Primitives	Displays a yellow wireframe around a rigid body when you set the Collision Type geometry in its Rigid Body property editor to a bounding box, sphere, or capsule. This wireframe shows the extents of its volume for collision calculations.
PolyMesh Boundaries	On polygon meshes, displays boundary edges (unshared edges that belong to only one polygon) in light blue and hard edges (edges with discontinuous shading) in dark blue.
PolyMesh Hulls	Displays the control hull of subdivision surfaces that have been created using the Subdivisions options on the Polygon Mesh tab of the Geometry Approximation Property Editor.
PolyMesh Internal Edges	Displays the edges of the triangles that result after quads and n-gons are tessellated. The internal edges appear as dotted lines (sparse dotted lines on invisible polygons when they are displayed).
Subdivision Surface	Displays the subdivided result of subdivision surfaces of that have been created using the Subdivisions options on the Polygon Mesh tab of the Geometry Approximation Property Editor.
NURBS Boundaries	On NURBS curves and surfaces, displays minimum U knots or knot curves in red and minimum V knots or knot curves in green.
NURBS Hulls	Displays dark blue line connecting the control points of NURBS curves and surfaces.
Chain Critical Zone	Displays the critical zone as a pair of cones around the root of a kinematic chain. If the chain effector enters the critical zone, the chain may flip. The critical zone is blue when the default preferred axis of rotation is used or when a preferred axis constraint is applied to the chain. The critical zone is green when an up-vector constraint is applied to the chain.
Chain Joint Rotation Limits	Displays the circles at the joints, the joint's rotation limits, and the stiffness of kinematic joints. For 2D joints, the rotation limits are indicated by a red circle with two lines. The space opened between the lines indicates the range of motion for the joint. For 3D joints, there are three circles in red, green, and blue for the X, Y, and Z axes, respectively. The stiffness is indicated by filling in the joint. The degree to which the joint is filled in represents the degree of stiffness.
Distance to Output Camera	Displays the distance in Softimage units of objects from the output camera.
Point Cloud Points Only	Overrides the default particle display modes and shape type and displays all particles as points. You may want to use this for faster performance or for a less cluttered display when you're not tweaking the particles. You can also set this in the point cloud's Particle Display property editor — see Setting the Particle Display.
Point Cloud Trails	Displays lines giving a visual cue to the particle's velocity. The amount of trail left by a particle depends on its speed of emission. You can also create a custom particle display attribute to do this (using Point Velocity), giving you more display options — see Creating Particle Display Attributes.
Point IDs	Displays each particle's ID under it. The ID gives you information on particle age and distribution — see About Particle IDs and Indices. You can also create a custom particle display attribute to do this, giving you more display options — see Creating Particle Display Attributes.
Hair Interpolation Group IDs	Displays the ID of the interpolation group next to the root of each guide curve of a hair object. You can create interpolation groups using Split or Shatter on the Hair panel. If guide curves have been merged, their interpolation guide IDs are shown with an asterisk.
Locked Hair Points	Displays a little blue padlock icon next to locked points on hair objects. You can lock and unlock points using the corresponding commands on the Hair panel.
Property Maps	Displays weight, envelope weight, and symmetry maps. This option has an effect only in Constant or Shaded mode. Constant mode shows the maps more clearly than Shaded.
Display/ICE Attributes	Toggles the display of: Display attributes — see Displaying Attribute Values. This includes display attributes for ICE particles (point clouds) — see Creating Particle Display Attributes. Port values in ICE trees. See Displaying Port Values.
XRay Surface	Displays objects whose Opacity is less than 1.0 in their Display properties.
Stereo Zero Parallax Plane	Displays the zero parallax planes for the left and right cameras in a stereo camera rig — see Stereoscopic (3D) Camera Rigs for more information. You can set the zero parallax planes' color and transparency values on the Components tab in the Scene Colors Property Editor.
Points Weight	Displays points in colors that indicate how they are weighted to different deformers, in the case of envelope and spine deformations.
Cluster Reference Frame	Displays a small axes icon showing the averaged center of the selected components or clusters. This reference frame is computed dynamically. You can display this reference frame as a visual guide, which is useful when setting tangency and normal parameters for object to cluster constraints. Note that the displayed cluster reference frame is not necessarily the same as the reference frame use for manipulating components in Local mode. The displayed cluster reference frame is a single average, while non-adjacent component use their own reference frames for manipulation. To enable multiple visual cues when transforming non-adjacent components, turn on Display Multiple Transformation Axes in your Transform preferences.
Cluster Reference Frame Info	Displays the global XYZ position of the averaged center of the selected components or clusters.

Show Normals

Normals

Displays the shading normals as blue lines.

On polygon meshes, the normals appear at the vertices. These can be either auto or user normals, depending on whether user normals are defined on the object.

On NURBS surface objects, the normals appear at the center of patches.

Polygon Normals

Displays the geometric normals in the center of polygons. This option affects only polygon meshes.

For Selected Objects

Controls whether normals are shown for the entire object or only for selected components when displaying normals on selected polygon meshes:

Show On Whole Object always displays normals on the entire object.
Show On Selected Components displays normals only on the selected points or polygons, or the points and polygons adjacent to the selected edges.
Combo (depends on selection mode) displays normals on the entire object when an object selection filter is active, and on selected components when a component selection filter is active.

Transforms

The checkboxes in the left column affect the display of selected objects, and the right column affect unselected objects.

Centers	Displays object centers as thin XYZ axes indicators with a white circle at the origin.
Centers of mass	Displays the rigid body's center of mass as a blue box with a yellow axis. The center of mass is the location at which a rigid body object spins around itself when dynamics are applied (forces and/or collisions). By default, the center of mass is defined at the same location as the object's center (wherever the center is located).
Object Pivots	Displays the pivots of objects. Object pivots are the center of transformation when playing back animated rotation and scaling. They appear as thin XYZ axes indicators with a white circle and a black bull's-eye at the origin. When an object's pivot has been deactivated in its Local Transform Property Editor, the center pivot is displayed with desaturated colors.

Visual Cues

Controls the display of the visual cues in viewports, as well as snapping to the grid and reference planes.

Show

Floor/Grid	Displays the floor or grid.
Plane	Specifies which plane to display: X-Z Plane, X-Y Plane, Y-Z Plane: Displays the specified bounded global plane. View: Displays an infinite plane aligned with the viewport. View X-Z Plane, View X-Y Plane, View Y-Z Plane: Displays an infinite plane when the camera is perfectly aligned with the specified plane (as when using the View Cube to align with Front, Top, or Right, for example), or a bounded global plane otherwise.
Manipulator/Tool Display	Displays the tool manipulators, such as the Transform manipulator and others. You can turn this off in one viewport to see the final result unobstructed by any manipulator while still being able to work with manipulators in the other viewports.
Axis	Displays the XYZ-axes icon.
Ruler	Displays a ruler for the horizontal and vertical axes. This option affects only orthographic views (Top, Front, and Right).
Field Guide	Displays the field guide. This option affects only perspective views (Camera, User, Spot, and so on).
Safe Title	Defines safe title boundaries as a percentage of the height and width.
Safe Action	Defines safe action boundaries as a percentage of the height and width.

Floor/Grid Setup

U, V Cell Size	Defines the U and V cell size of the floor or grid in a viewport in Softimage units.
Floor Size	Defines the size or the extent of the floor in a perspective view in Softimage units. This value has an effect only with finite grids as displayed in perspective cameras rather than infinite grids as displayed in orthographic viewpoints.
U, V Snap Size	Defines the size of the grid increments used for snapping in View mode, in Softimage units.

Snapping

Lets you transfer settings to and from the Transform Options property editor.

Copy to Translate Snap Increments	Copies the U Snap Size value to the Snap Increments: Translate value of the Transform Options.
Copy from Translate Snap Increments	Copies the Snap Increments: Translate value of the Transform Options to both the U and V Snap Size values.
Edit Translate Snap Increments	Opens the Transform Options property editor.

Stats

| Scene/Selection Info | Custom Info | Viewport Slate | Viewport Slate

Controls the display of playback, selection, and custom information in the viewport. You can also enable and define a viewport slate.

Playback Info

Show Frame Rate	Displays the scene's frame rate in the middle of the bottom edge of the viewport.
Show Vertical Sync (v-sync) Status in Frame Rate	Displays "sync on" or "sync off", depending on your display driver v-sync settings, when Show Frame Rate is on. This option is available on Windows systems only and does not work with all graphics cards and drivers. If the sync state displayed in the viewport does not match the preference set in Display Preferences [Preference Reference], then the preference is being overridden by the driver. In your driver's settings, you should set v-sync to "application controlled" (or equivalent). If your graphics card does not support this feature, then no sync information will be shown. You should assume that v-sync is enabled. Disabling v-sync can greatly improve playback speed, but can result in minor visual artifacts if the frame changes during a screen redraw. See Troubleshooting Viewing Problems [Viewing and Playback].
Show Current Time	Displays the current frame in the lower right-hand corner of the viewport.
Show Fast Playback Cache Size	When the Fast Playback Cache is enabled, its size is displayed in the middle of the bottom edge of the viewport.

Scene/Selection Info

Show Selection Info	Displays the number of selected objects, and the total number of triangles in the selection, in the upper left-hand corner of the viewport.
Show Scene Info	Displays the number of scene objects, and the total number of triangles in the scene, in the upper left-hand corner of the viewport.
Show Construction Level / Playback Update Mode	Displays information about the current construction display mode of the view, as well as the current construction mode for adding modeling operators. If the construction mode and display mode are the same, the mode is displayed in the lower left corner of a view. If the construction mode and display modes are different, the display mode is shown first and the construction mode is displayed in square brackets. The current option for the Playback Update Mode is displayed, which is the type of objects that are updated during playback.
Show Simulation Info	Displays simulation information in the corner of the active viewport. The information shown is for the current simulation environment and includes the start and end of the simulation, the last frame that has been cached, whether the cache is on, and whether the cache is locked. You can also click the Toggle Simulation Info button in the Simulation Time Control property editor for the current simulation environment to turn this information display on or off.

Custom Info

Show Custom "DisplayInfo" Parameters	Displays any custom parameter sets whose names start with "DisplayInfo". If an object is selected, its DisplayInfo custom parameter sets are displayed; if nothing is selected, any DisplayInfo sets for the scene root are displayed. You can mark and change these values using the virtual slider tool, or change them directly in the view if Enable On-screen Editing of Custom "DisplayInfo" Parameters is on in your Display preferences.
Show Local Transform SRT Parameters	Displays the local transformation parameters and values of the first object in the selection in the 3D view. You can mark and change these values using the virtual slider tool, or change them directly in the view if Enable On-screen Editing of Custom "DisplayInfo" Parameters is on in your Display preferences.
Use Proxy Parameter Names	Displays the name of the proxy parameter as it appears in the DisplayInfo set, not the name of the parameter to which the proxy parameter refers. For example, a proxy parameter created for a null's Scale X parameter would be named null Scaling X in the set, but the parameter to which it refers is called sclx.

Viewport Slate

You can display custom information in 3D views by specifying preset tokens and text strings to create a viewport slate. A viewport slate can be defined for a specific camera (choose Visibility Options from the "eye icon" menu), or for all cameras at once (choose View Visibility Options (All Cameras) from the main menu).

You can display a viewport slate for the User, Top, Front, Right, and Spotlight viewpoints, but unlike "real" cameras, viewpoints cannot be used for final rendering. For details, see Cameras and Viewpoints [Viewing and Playback].

You can also copy the contents of any viewport slate to and from the render slate defined for the current pass. For more information about creating a render slate, see the Slate tab in the Render Pass Property Editor.

Enable	Enables the display of template information in any viewport set to that particular camera or viewpoint.
Copy from Pass Slate	Copies to this viewport slate the contents of the render slate defined for the current pass.
Copy to Pass Slate	Copies the contents of this viewport slate to the render slate defined for the current pass.
Tokens	Opens a help topic listing all available tokens. For details, see Tokens and Templates.
[templates]	Enter tokens and text strings to create a viewport slate. You can enter template information on a single line or on multiple lines (each line is considered a separate template). The viewport slate recognizes all universal tokens and their optional parameters, as well as the context-specific viewport slate tokens. For information about the available tokens and how to build templates, see Tokens and Templates.
Viewport Slate Example	This viewport slate displays basic camera information, including the values for the near and far clipping planes of a camera named Main_Camera. The template is defined in one line as follows: [Camera] [CameraProjection] near:[Value main_camera.camera.near] far:[Value main_camera.camera.far]