534 AutoCAD and Its Applications—Advanced Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Creating a Still Shot Creating a Still Shot A still shot is the same as a named view, but with a transition. Open the New View/ Shot Properties dialog box and enter a name in the View name: text box. Next, pick in the View category: text box and type a category name or select an existing category using the drop-down list. Remember, it is not necessary to create or select a category at this time. Now, select Still from the View type: drop-down list. NOTE NOTE The Still view type is also used to create named views. A named view is a single-frame display of a model from a given viewpoint. Named views can be used for any purpose in AutoCAD, not just for show motion. For example, it is useful to create named views for use in rendering. Named views are saved with the drawing and can be displayed by accessing the drop-down list in the Named Views panel on the Visualize tab of the ribbon. A named view can be displayed at any time, and can be used for any show motion view. In the Shot Properties tab, select a transition from the Transition type: drop-down list. You can select from one of three transitions: • Fade from black into this shot. The screen begins totally black and fades into the current background color. • Fade from white into this shot. The screen begins totally white and fades into the current background color. • Cut to shot. The view is immediately displayed without a transition and the shot movements are applied. The fade transitions will not function unless hardware acceleration is enabled. This feature is normally activated by default upon software installation. However, you can confi rm this by checking the appearance of the Graphics Performance tool in the status bar. See Figure 20-4. The tool is shaded blue if hardware acceleration is turned on. Hover over the tool to display the tooltip, which should read Hardware acceleration - On. If hardware acceleration is not on, right-click on the tool to display the shortcut menu and select Graphics Performance… to open the Graphics Performance dialog box. Refer to Figure 20-4B. In the Graphics Performance dialog box, pick the Hardware Acceleration button to enable or disable hardware acceleration. Other graphics effects can also be enabled or disabled in this dialog box. See Figure 20-5. After hardware acceleration has been enabled, display the New View/Shot Properties dialog box, enter a name, and select a transition. Next, in the Transition duration (seconds) text box, enter a length of time over which the transition will occur. If you Figure 20-4. Hardware acceleration must be activated for the show motion fade transitions to function. A—Hover over the Graphics Performance tool to confirm that hardware acceleration is turned on. B—The shortcut menu displayed by right-clicking on the Graphics Performance tool. Right-click to access shortcut menu Graphics Performance tool Pick to open the Graphics Performance dialog box A B Tooltip