Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
set. If you're far away from the building or your view is quite broad, a Coarse detail level is quite
sufficient. But if you're zoomed in on a particular detail or part of the building (or just a single
office or room), a Fine detail level might be more appropriate.
We discuss the use of detail level with greater rigor in Chapter 14, “Designing with the
Family Editor,” where you will learn how to apply this property to your own content families.
Working with Graphic Display Options
The Graphic Display Options dialog box allows you to control all of your views' graphic options
(Figure 11.6). These are the Model Display (which we've just reviewed) and the Shadows,
Lighting, Photographic Exposure, and Background settings. This dialog box also allows you
to save views as templates to quickly transfer the settings to other views. It's important to
understand how these settings impact the visualization in your view. Since we just stepped
through the Model Display options, let's step through the options in this dialog box to round
out your understanding of how you can modify the view to get the desired effect in your
renderings and visualizations.
Figure 11.6
graphic Display
options dialog box
Model Display
The first group of settings you will find in the Graphic Display Options
dialog box is related to Model Display. Within this group, you can define settings for the visual
style, transparency of model elements, and silhouettes.
Likely one of the most commonly used settings, the visual style of your view can be defined
from one of six options. The available visual styles are shown in the context of the view con-
trol bar in Figure 11.7.
