Changing the Display of Objects in the Static Light Table

When you load drawings into the Static Light Table, you can modify their display properties so that they appear differently in the Drawing View window. These properties only affect how the drawings appear while they are in the Static Light Table; they do not affect the original drawings.

For example, if you had a drawing in the Static Light Table panel and it was hiding another drawing you wanted to work on, you have two choices:

You can hide it from view (while keeping it in the Static Light Table).
You can change the layering order so that it no longer hides the drawing you want to see.

To change the display properties of the objects in the Static Light Table, do any of the following:

To show/hide a drawing, select the Display checkbox above the thumbnail.

When you select the Display checkbox, the drawing appears in the Drawing View window.

When you deselect the Display checkbox, the drawing disappears from the Drawing View window, although it still appears in the Static Light Table.

To show/hide all the drawings in the Static Light Table, [Control]-click in the Static Light Table panel and select one of the following commands from the pop-up menu:

Show All: displays all the drawings in the Static Light Table.

Hide All: hides all the drawings in the Static Light Table.

To change the layering order of a drawing, click the layering icons above the drawing’s thumbnail.

Overlay

: places the currently selected Static Light Table image above the currently selected drawing in the Exposure Sheet window.

Underlay

: places the currently selected Static Light Table image below the currently selected drawing in the Exposure Sheet window.

To change the layering order for all the drawings in the Static Light Table panel, [Control]-click the Static Light Table panel and select one of the following options from the pop-up menu:

Overlay All: places all the drawings in the Static Light Table above the currently selected drawing.

Underlay All: places all the drawings in the Static Light Table below the currently selected drawing.

To enable/disable the shading of objects that appear in the Static Light Table:

1. Open the Preferences dialog box. Select Toon Boom Studio > Preferences.

The Preferences dialog box opens.

2. Click the Light Table tab.

3. In the Static Light Table panel, select Enable Shade.

When this option is selected, the color of objects in the Static Light Table is paler than the original.
When this option is de-selected, objects in the Static Light Table have the same color shading as the original.