Amorphium 3 Interface Introduction

Amorphium 3 is designed to increase work flow and productivity. With new displays, pop-up menus, options and keyboard shortcut commands. All the tool bars and work window float, letting you arrange them to positions which best suit your work environment needs.

A Menu Bar has been added, options that were scattered about the screen are now located on the various drop-down menus.


A Tab Bar has been added to navigate to the various workspaces.


The right click pop-up menus have the undo/redo options, and now correspond with the tools located in the current workspace.


The pop-up menu in Composer have the undo/redo options and corresponds with the current selected tool set.



A question many new users to Amorphium ask is " Why is the workspace window grayed out " If your familiar with graphic programs you know when an option is grayed out on a drop down menu, that it means you can't use that option on the current object or image. This is true to Amorphium drop down menus to. When an option on the menu is grayed out, it means that option can not be used in that particular workspace.


But what about when the whole workspace window is grayed out?


Well this can mean a few things.
1. That type object can not be worked on in that workspace or be worked on by the selected tool in that workspace. An example: Biosphere and Wax objects can not be worked on in the FX workspace except using the view tools, but no effects can be used on them. But in the Paint workspace they can be bucket painted, or the eye dropper tool can be used, but any of the paint brush set can not be used on them.
2. There might be a missing element making the workspace grayed out, like there needs to be a morph target loaded in Morph workspace or the window is grayed out, or a height map needs to be loaded in Heightshop. Another element that could be missing is a keyframe. Since most of Amorphium's tools can be animated, there has to be a keyframe for the object, at the time line's current position.

These series of interface tutorials are provided for the beginner to intermediate user, to instructed and familiarize the user with Amorphium's interface, tools, options and functions.



These interface tutorials are written and provided by : Stephen Ray