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Customizing colors and hotkeys

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Customizing colors and hotkeys

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- [Voiceover] In the previous movie, we talked about the color scheme of the grid. And how a minor grid line is a different color from a major grid line, and it's extremely difficult to see the difference in the default color scheme here. We can change the color of the Viewport background and the grid in order to make it much more legible. Let's do that, we'll go into the Customize menu and choose Customize User Interface. In that dialog we've got a bunch of tabs here, let's choose the colors tab, and the default elements that we'll be working with are the Viewports, we can scroll down inside there, we're looking for a Viewport background. Select that, and we can change the color of the Viewport background. Now this is the current color, but notice how much darker it is in the actual Viewport, and that's because gamma correction is currently enabled. And we'll talk more about gamma later when we look at rendering, but basically what's happening is that the entire color scheme of the…

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