Eyeon:Manual/Console
From VFXPedia
Contents |
Console Tab
Console Introduction
The Console Tab contains a text area used by Fusion to display messages produced while working with the composition. This includes error messages, basic information messages and output from running scripts.
Additionally, the console provides a scripting interpreter that can be used for immediate mode scripting. If the console is not the active view, any new messages sent to the console will cause a small icon to appear in the tab, indicating that a new message is available.
Console Toolbar
The Console Toolbar contains five buttons. One button is used to clear the console, the other four are filters for the messages displayed in the console.
Note The filters do not destroy messages sent to the console. They merely choose whether the messages are hidden or displayed.
Console Toolbar Buttons
Hold the mouse pointer over each button for a moment to display a popup dialog that describes the button's function.
- Cls.
- Click on this button to clear all text displayed in the console.
- Show Error Messages
Click on this button and the console will display error messages in the console.
- Show Log Messages
- When this button is selected, the console will display general information messages in the console. For example, after a render is complete, the console will show information about when the render started, how long each frame took, and the average render time per frame for the composition.
- Show Scripting Messages
- When this button is selected, the console will display the output of flow and tool scripts run by the artist.
- Show Input Messages
- When this button is selected, the console will echo any text entered in the text box below the console.
Console Entry Field
The text box immediately beneath the console can be used to enter scripting commands directly.
Any Fusion script commands that are entered into this dialog will be executed the moment enter is selected. For details on using the Console Entry Field and scripting, please refer to the online scripting manual that was installed with Fusion.
