Navigating in the Preview window

- [Voiceover] Like all 3D programs,…PlantFactory has a viewport in which you can…see, manipulate, and navigate…around 3D objects.…And in PlantFactory, it's called the plant preview window.…To learn the navigation shortcuts…for the plant preview window,…let's load up a scene file.…Go to the File menu and choose file Open…and in the scenes browser,…we want to click on the…manually browse file icon here.…It's the folder on the upper right-hand corner.…

When you click on that, you get a pop-up asking,…do you want to load a scene or a species.…A scene is a PlantFactory project file…and it includes all of the scene elements…including lighting and rendering settings.…A species is only the procedural graph…of the plant and its materials.…And that's appropriate for loading into view.…It's a view plant species.…In this case, we want to load up a scene.…So click on scenes,…and then go into the exercise files,…and the scenes folder,…and choose the scene file…01_04_navigating.tpfp…As a side note,…if you're using PlantFactory Producer,…