The following operations are possible through the combined use of Viewer and CreativeStudio.
Layouts loaded into LayoutEditor can be previewed by communicating with LayoutEditor.
If an animation is added to the layout, that animation can be played.
When animation section tags are set by LayoutEditor
, the displayed animations can be switched at the animation section tag level.
Play, pause and frame-advance of animation is controlled using the system Controller.
In Layout mode, you can check layout contents loaded in the Viewer and play back animations.
Layout mode displays the following information.
Digital display of the processing loads on the CPU and GPU used by layouts.
The unit is percentage points. This is the equivalent of the value displayed in the Processing Meter.
CPU: The time spent for animating and rendering. Includes the time until the data has been completely received by the GPU.
Calc: Time spent in animation.
Draw: Time spent in rendering.
GPU: Time for rendering, from start to finish.
Displays the frame information for the animation currently operating.
The number at the left is the current frame; at right, the total number of frames.
The Animation Frame is not shown if there is no attached animation.
Press left and right on the +Control Pad of the controller to change the current frame. Left on the +Control Pad moves the layout animation one frame backwards. Right on the +Control Pad advances the layout animation by one frame.
Displays information about the animation currently targeted for operations.
ANIM:ALL indicates that the entire animation is displaying/playing.
If animation segment tags have been set, the range of frames specified by these tags can be shown or played.
ANIM: animation segment tag name is displayed at this time.
Below this, the sequence number of the currently displayed animation and the total number of animations are displayed.
Each time right is pressed on the controller's +Control Pad, settings change as follows:
[Entire animation], [1st animation segment tag], [2nd animation segment tag], and so on. Pressing left on the +Control Pad cycles through the settings in reverse order.
Shows the type of the animation that is targeted for operations.
Switch the type by pressing left or right on the +Control Pad. You can select "PANE" or "GROUP".
Shows the name of the pane or group that is the animation operation target.
Shown under this is the sequence number of the current animation target and the total number of animation targets.
Switch the target by pressing left and right on the +Control Pad.
Displays the current camera mode.
You can switch camera modes using LEFT and RIGHT on the controller's +Control Pad.
CAM:ORTHO is for normal 2D display.
CAM:PERS is for 3D-like display. The smaller the pane's Z value, the smaller the size of display.
For CAM:PERS, FOVY appears below. LEFT and RIGHT on the controller's +Control Pad can be used to change the FOVY value.
Indicates the width and height (in pixels) of the displayed layout.
The width and height of a layout are set in LayoutEditor by selecting "Layout Environment Settings" under the "File" menu.
The following operations can be performed in Layout Mode.
Layout Mode Operations
Animation operations are valid when an animation has been loaded.
Operations are performed the same way on the system Controller and on the debug pad.
Key Operations | Description | |
A Button | Starts or stops the playback of a layout animation. | |
B Button | Resets the layout's animation frame to 0. | |
+Control Pad up and down | Switches the selection. | |
+Control Pad left and right | Animation Frame | Left: Moves the layout animation one frame backward. Right: Advances the layout animation by one frame. |
ANIM | If animation segment tags have been set for the loaded animation, this switches the range of the animation to play. | |
TARGET | Switches the type of the target of animation operations. | |
PANE, GROUP | Switches between "PANE" and "GROUP" as the target of animation operations. | |
CAM | Switches the camera mode. | |
FOVY (Only displayed when the camera is in the PERS mode.)) |
Changes the FOVY value. |
Layout-related parameter settings can be dynamically changed from the opened Menu Screen.
These setting items can also be changed from an initial settings file.
For details on each parameter item that can be set from the menu, see Initial Settings File
The current version of Viewer cannot load binary layout files for display.
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