How to hide directional box?

Wonderland

This box is driving me crazy, especially when I use the smaller screen on my laptop. When I select the head and want to add expressions or eye controls, it often covers everything, so I can't see the eyes. How can I hide the box? Thanks.

FSMCDesigns

It's because you are using the translate tool. Go to the tools tab and change to node selection. I never use the translate tool so had to look it up first, LOL.

Wonderland

FSMCDesigns said:

It's because you are using the translate tool. Go to the tools tab and change to node selection. I never use the translate tool so had to look it up first, LOL.

 

I thought that was the general selection tool that I was using--the Universal tool.... I tried switching to the Region Navigator tool and that gives a big yellow line around it and doesn't allow you to select body parts... How can you select body parts without the Universal tool?  What is the translate tool? I use all the tools in the Parameter tabs.

FSMCDesigns

That is the thing about DS, it has soo much redundancy and ways to do things. I use the node selection tool 98% of the time, I thought THAT was the default general selection tool. I use it and then the parameters sliders for movement as that gives me more precise control and movement. I find that using the translate or universal tool gives me less control.

Here is where I select which tool I am using

Wonderland

I use the universal tool to select a body part then use the parameter dials. I never use that box and want to get rid of it...

marble

FSMCDesigns said:

That is the thing about DS, it has soo much redundancy and ways to do things. I use the node selection tool 98% of the time, I thought THAT was the default general selection tool. I use it and then the parameters sliders for movement as that gives me more precise control and movement. I find that using the translate or universal tool gives me less control.

Here is where I select which tool I am using

Precisely what I do too.

Tobor

Wonderland said:

I use the universal tool to select a body part then use the parameter dials. I never use that box and want to get rid of it...

I think your question has been answered. If you don't need the on-screen adjustment widgets, don't use any of the tools that display them. Universal displays the translate/rotate/scale widget; the Node tool will not.

Scavenger

Of the default easy to click tools, I just switch to the spot render tool when I need to see things like face.

Wonderland

How can I add the node tool to the main UI where the Universal tool is? Thanks.

I'm CPU only so a spot render takes a long time and on the laptop, the face is too small to see because it renders right in the small window. I can't see anything until I render larger in a separate window.

FSMCDesigns

Wonderland said:

How can I add the node tool to the main UI where the Universal tool is? Thanks.

I'm CPU only so a spot render takes a long time and on the laptop, the face is too small to see because it renders right in the small window. I can't see anything until I render larger in a separate window.

Not sure I understand, in the image I posted, where the node slection tool is circled in yellow, the universal tool is right next to it.. If nothing else, you try dragging tools to where you want them, it works for windows and tabs.

Richard Haseltine

Window>Workspace>Customise. Find the tool, under Viewport Tools, in the action list on the left and the Tool bar you want to add it to in the Tool bars tab on the right, then drag it from the action list to the tool bar