To Customize Controls and Display

Adjust the VRED Display

• Click View > Display.

Define individual display settings appropriate for the device you are using.

• Powerwall Settings: Open the Powerwall settings editor.
  • Width and Height: Set the dimensions of the projection window.
  • Distance: Set the distance between the projection window and viewer.
  • Enable Powerwall Mode: Activate Powerwall rendering.
• Standard Display: Encodes the rendered image to be displayed on a standard display.
• SIM2 HDR: Encodes the rendered image to be displayed on an HDR display.
• Sony 10bit: Encodes the rendered output image with 10-bit color depth.
• Oculus Rift: Generates output images optimized for Oculus Rift devices.
• OpenVR HMD: Enables head mounted VR devices to connect to VRED via the OpenVR .

Show Split View

Splits the renderview into perspective, front, side, and top views.

• Click Window > Show Split View.
• Click Window > Show Single View to display single view. The last active window, indicated by a white border, will be shown in single view mode.

Shortcut to toggle between split view and single view: Ctrl + Space Bar.

Show or Hide Toolbars

Select which toolbars to include in the main VRED window.

• Click View > Toolbars.

Identify Stereo Output channels

• Click View > Stereo Identification.

Show Scene Elements and Controls

From the View menu, select the appropriate option.

• Show A Sides, Show B Sides, Show A and B Sides: Faces in 3D data can be defined as an A or B side. Use these options to select which faces to show. More options are available in the Scenegraph View menu.
• Show Cameras: Shows or hides all cameras.
• Show Lights: Shows or hides all lights.
• Show Camera Pivot: The point the camera rotates around is displayed within the render view during camera rotation.
• Show Annotations: Show annotations that were created under Interaction > Annotation.
• Show Clipping: Show the clipping plane created under Interaction > Clipping.
• Show Grid: Show the scene grid in the render view. This provides a grid (axis) on the floor that helps with estimating distances.
• Show Measurement: Show measurements created under Interaction > Measurement.
• Show Ruler: Show the ruler in the scene.
• Show Manipulator: Show the transform manipulator.
• Show Routes: Opens a new window and displays all VRML animation routes in the scene.
• Show Shortcuts: Opens a new window and displays all available VRED shortcuts.

To show or hide everything that currently selected:

• Click Visualization > Isolate View Selected.

Visibility of environments and backplates is not affected. In previous versions of VRED, this feature was available by dragging a node from the Scenegraph into render view.

Show a Simulation of a Scene

• Click Visualization > Simulate.

This starts the simulation loop to control animations, interactive scripts, viewpoint interpolations, and other functions.