Postcards

Collecting and Organizing Postcards. Collecting a PostCard is equivalent to take a snapshot of the contents of the current scene at any time, by storing all parameters attributed to the materials: Colors, Shaders and textures. The goal is to facilitate recovery of its settings and, if necessary, to be able to rapidly transmit the information it contains to any other user, or from one project to another.

Saving a PostCard

Saves the current view as a Postcard.

Tools Menu > Create a Postcard, a dialog box enables the user to name and specify the location where it is saved.

• Clicking on Save stores the Postcard. There is an unlimited number of saves.

NB: Postcards are saved to jpeg format either in a Postcards folder or another folder that you will have to catalog.

NB: Although the Postcard is in jpeg format, editing it with an image touch-up program will cause it to lose Shader and texture-specific information.

NB: a PostCard that has been resaved in image retouching software becomes unusable in Artlantis. Information related to Shaders and textures is permanently lost.

From the Favorites area, navigate to a catalog containing Postcards and select the Postcard in the thumbnail area.

Using a Postcard

In the Catalog Preview area, simply drag and drop Postcard elements to an element displayed in the Preview window.

Transmitting a Postcard

To send Postcards, find the folder on your hard drive where the Postcards are saved.

• Find the Postcard on the hard drive and transmit it to another computer. To catalog the Postcard, use the Favorites area in the Catalog window.

On a Mac platform, by default Postcards are saved in the Postcards directory in the Media directory placed next to the application.

Deleting a Postcard

Locate the Postcard saved on the hard drive and delete it.

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