The Project Menu

This tutorial explains the project menu and most of it's functions.

In the upper left corner the Project pull down menu is located.

This is were you can do a number of functions like open & save projects.
Import & Export Objects. Set up Preferences and more.

There is also a list of key broad short cuts for each option.


A project consist of all the objects you made or imported into Amorphium.
In a single session, Either when you launch Amorphium or click new in the project menu.
You can open and add to or change existing projects.
When you save a project Amorphium saves all the texture and height maps, paint, optic settings,
and mask for each individual object in the project. It also saves light setting, the current task files,
the current morph target in the target windows, the current biospheres in the biosphere work space,
And all the key frames you set in composer.

About shows the Play logo and Amorphium credits.

New will start a new project. If you already have a project open you will get this Warning
If you click yes you will Get the save dialog box. If you click no the current project will
be cleared an a new one will take it's place, if you click cancel you will return to
the current project.

Open will bring up the open dialog box were you can browse to locate the project you wish to open.
If you already have a project with unsaved changes open you will get the same warning above.
To open an Amorphium object file, go to open at the bottom of the 3D work space.

Save will bring up the save dialog box, where you can save it to your computer.
After you save a project if you don't make any changes and hit save again
it will save to the location and name you previously save to. So there is a save as feature
so you can save the same project to a different name and location.

Again to save an object as an Amorphium file, go to save at the bottom of the 3D work space.


Import and Export
This is were you can import other 3D object files
and export Amorphium objects in other 3D file formats.
Import will bring up the open dialog box.
Export will bring up this menu.
To learn more about what Amorphium will Import and Export, and their menus
see my tutorial on Import & Export menus.

Undo will completely undo the last operation. In any of the work spaces, except Task.

Project Info is were information is displayed about the current project.

You can also name the project and give a description of it.
This name does not have to be the same name you saved the project as.

Preference is were you set up some of Amorphium's basic default operating conditions.

To learn more about the Preference menu see my tutorial on Amorphium's Preference Menu.

Display lets you preview a image file in full screen, you can also preview movie files
like Quicktime. when you use it you will get an open dialog box to locate the file.
After you open the preview will be in full screen. To close it click anywhere on the screen.

Quit will close Amorphium if you have any unsaved changes you will get the warning.

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