Control Panel and Control Types

From ZBrush Info

The ZMapper control panel appears along the bottom of the ZMapper screen. It contains an upper portion and several other sections that may be accessed via tabbed pages. ZMapper uses the standard control types in its interface; buttons, tabs, etc. These are described below.

Buttons such as Exit are shown as a lighter gray outlined area, containing the button text. Pressing on a button causes an action.

Switches such as Spin are shown as text drawn on a darker gray background if deselected; and as text on a yellow background if selected. Switches may either be toggles(clicking turns them on or off), or part of a group (clicking one activates it, and turns any other switch in its group off).

Intensity controls such as Morph Speed are shown with a gradated bar underneath. Clicking on the control sets the degree of intensity. If only the white square at the left of the bar is highlighted, the intensity is set to 0.

Upper Controls

The upper ZMapper controls are those shown below; they are the most basic controls in the interface, and are not part of a tabbed page. Each of these columns is described in detail in subsequent sections of the ZMapper reference.

Figure: ZMapper Upper Controls

Control Tabs

The lower Zmapper controls are dived into tabs: Normal & Cavity Map,Projection, Expert Pass 1,Expert Pass 2, and Misc. These tabs are collapsed by default when you start ZMapper. Clicking on a tab shows the controls associated with that tab, hiding any other tab's controls. Shift-clicking on a tab will show that tab's panel, without hiding other panels. Each of these sections is described in detail in subsequent sections of the ZMapper reference.

Hiding the Controls

At any point in time, clicking on the UI title bar--the one at the top of the control panel--will hide or unhide the rest of the panel, to allow enlarging the area of the screen available for viewing the model.