Chapter 5, Getting Familiar with Your Workspace
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Using Tool Presets as a Display Modifier
Using Tool Presets in the Pick List
A tool preset is a tool you save with a customized set of properties. You can then use the tool preset as you would any other tool in a dependency graph. Sharing tool presets among a team is a great way to streamline a project. You can simply email tool presets to anyone involved in a particular project.
The tool presets you create are stored the ToolPresets folder in the following location: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk_Toxik_2009\username. When you create a tool preset, it is appended with the following extension: .txpreset. For example, in the following illustration, three tool presets were created from the Glow tool which reside in the \ToolPresets\Effects\Glow folder.
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You can create a tool preset from the current tool after customizing it for your project. Once you create a tool preset, you can load it into the dependency graph and starting using it. Reloading the tool preset returns it to the settings in which you saved the tool preset.
Note: You cannot create a tool preset from a group in the Schematic.
The controls for using tool presets are located in the Tool Options area on the right side of the tool UI.
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From the Schematic, select a tool node from the dependency graph.
Do one of the following:
Right-click the tool and select Presets > Save.
In the Tool options area, click the Save button.
Type in a name for the tool preset and click OK.
The name of the current tool preset is displayed in the Preset field in the Tool Options area.
From the Schematic, select a tool node from the dependency graph.
Do one of the following:
Right-click the tool node and select Presets > Load.
In the Tool options area, click the Load button.
Middle-click or press the tilde key (~) to display the Gate UI and swipe east to display the Pick List, Tools, and Views tabs. Select a tool, right-click and select Presets. Then select a preset from the list and drag it over the selected tool node in the Schematic.
The tool preset is loaded into the tool node and becomes the current tool.
Hint: This is also a good way to reset the values of a tool preset back to its set values.
From the Schematic, select the tool node with the tool preset you want reload.
In the Tool options area, click the Reload button.
The tool preset is reloaded into the selected tool node.
Navigate to the following folder: C:\DocumentsandSettings\username\ApplicationData\Autodesk\Autodesk_Toxik_2009\username\ToolPresets.
Locate the tool preset you want to delete.
Select the tool preset and press Delete on the keyboard.
You can apply any tool preset you created to a Player view or the fullscreen Player. This affects only what that particular Player displays; it has no effect on the composition data.
Note: You can apply a tool preset to the fullscreen Player only if you entered it through a Player view.
In the Player view or fullscreen Player, middle-click or press the tilde key (~) to display the Gate UI and swipe east to display the Pick List, Tools, and Views tabs.
Select the Tools tab.
Select a tool preset to apply to the Player, drag it outside the Tools tab, and do one of the following:
Pause over the Player view in which you want to apply the tool.
In the fullscreen Player, pause anywhere.
In the Player, middle-click or press the tilde key (~) to display the Gate UI and go through the south gate.
The Player Options appear.
Position the cursor over the last tab of the Player Options and release.
The name of the tab changes to that of the dropped tool preset. The Player updates to reflect the result of applying the tool preset to the image.
For greater workflow efficiency, you can add tool presets to the Pick List and access your favorite or most frequently used tools--see Pick List.
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