Shading and Perspectives

RealFlow provides five points of view– the associated shortcuts are printed in brackets – and functions to reset the view: 

  • Top view (1)
  • Front view (2)
  • Side view (3)
  • Perspective view (4)
  • Camera view (5)

 

 

If you want to disable the blue frames in camera view please go to

View > Camera Safe Frame

 

There are also four shading modes (please see image above) – shortcuts are given in brackets:

  • Bounding box (7)
  • Wireframe (8)
  • Flat shading (9)
  • Smooth shading (0)

 

Scenes are normally lit by a single light source, but it is possible to enable two-point lighting under

Preferences > Display > Scene Lighting

 

Shading of individual nodes is, for example, controlled with the shading tag (last icon on the right) next to each entry of the “Nodes” panel: