Spinal Editing Control

Spinal Editing Control

Launched by the Window/Spinal Editing menu item. See Spinal Editing.

Off/Align/Solve. Button. Controls the mode in which the spinal editing features run, if at all. In align mode, the scene is re-aligned after a change. In solve mode, a “refine” solve cycle is run after a change.

Finish. Button. Used to finish a refine solve cycle that was truncated to maintain response time. Equivalent to the Go button on the solver control panel.

Lock Weight. Spinner. This weight is applied to create a soft-lock key on each applicable channel when the camera or object is moved or rotated. When this spinner is dragged, the solver will run in Solve mode, so you can interactively adjust the key weight.

Drag time (sec). Spinner. (Solve mode only.) Refine cycles will automatically be stopped after this duration, to maintain an interactive response rate. If zero, there will be no refine cycles during drag.

Time at release. Spinner. (Solve mode only.) An additional refine operation will run at the completion of a drag, lasting for up to this duration. If zero, there will not be a solve cycle at the completion of dragging (ie if the drag time is long enough for a complete solve already).

Update ZWTs, lights, etc on drag. Checkbox. If enabled, ZWTs, lights, etc will be updated as the camera is dragged, instead of only at the end.

Message area. Text. A text area displays the results of a solve cycle, including the number of iterations, whether it completed or was stopped, and the RMS error. In align mode, a total figure of merit is shown reflecting the extent to which the constraints could be satisfied—the value will be very small, unless the constraints are contradictory.

Preferences Controls

The spinal settings are stored in the scene file. When a new scene is created, the spinal settings are initialized from a set of preferences. These preferences are controlled directly from this panel, not from the preferences panel.

Set Prefs. Button. Stores the current settings as the preferences to use for new scenes.

Get from Prefs. Button. Reloads the current scene's settings from the preferences.

Restore Defaults. Button. Resets the current scene's settings to factory default values. They are not necessarily the same as the current preferences, nor are these values automatically saved as the preferences: you can hit Set Prefs if that is your intent.