Menus in Modo VR

The non-pointer controller has a number of floating labels over your wrist area. These make up the Menu system. Use the pointer controller to point at and highlight an item, and then use the trigger to select it.

Some items produce pop-up selections, hold the trigger down to show the pop-up items, highlight the desired item, and then release the trigger.

If you are not sure what a menu item is meant to do, highlight it for a couple of seconds (without triggering it) and a tooltip should appear.

The first row of items are the top menu and do not change. Clicking the leftmost one of these will change the menu items farther down to show sub-menus tailored to different workflows.

Top Menu Items

Menu	Show and changes the active sub-menu.
Selection Mode	Shows and changes the present selection mode.
Snapping	Toggles Snapping.
Action Centres	Selects the current Action Center mode.
Select Though	Toggles Select Through, when a transform tools is active.
Button Sets	Show and changes the active Buttons Set.

Menus

Anim	Show Animation sub-menu.
Button Sets	Show Buttons Sets sub-menu.
Rendering	Show Rendering options sub-menu.
Annotation	Show Annotations sub-menu.
LocTrack	Show Locator Tracking sub-menu.
Items	Show Item creation and manipulation sub-menu.
Layout	Show Item advanced manipulation sub-menu.
Misc	Show miscellaneous sub-menu.
Modeling	Show modeling sub-menu.

Common Menu Items

Undo	Undo operation.
Redo	Redo operation.
Drop	Drop present tool, and return to selection mode.
Item	Item selection mode.
SelThrgh	Toggle Select Through state.
Duplicate	Create duplicates of selected items.
Instance	Create instances of selected items.
Hide	Hide selected items.
Hide Invert	Invert hidden items.
UnHide All	Unhide all items.
Tx	Transform tool.
Rx	Rotation tool.
Sx	Scale tool.
X	Transform, Rotation and Scale tool.

Action Centre Modes

Automatic	Action Center mode.
Selection	Action Center mode.
Sel Border	Action Center mode.
Sel Auto	Action Center mode.
Element	Action Center mode.
Screen	Action Center mode.
Origin	Action Center mode.
Local	Action Center mode.
Pivot	Action Center mode.
Auto	Action Center element mode Auto.
Autoc	Action Center element mode Auto Center.

Layout Menu Items

Snap	Toggle snapping on/off. Start of snapping options.
Grid	Toggle grid snapping.
1 cm	Set grid snapping to 0.01 meter.
10 cm	Set grid snapping to 0.1 meter.
1 m	Set grid snapping to 1 meter.
V	Vertex snapping or action centers.
E	Edge snapping or action centers.
Ec	Edge Center snapping or action centers.
P	Polygon snapping or action centers.
Pc	Polygon Center snapping or action centers.

Rendering Menu Items

HMD Low	Use HMD Low Quality viewport preset.
HMD Mid	Use HMD Mid Quality viewport preset.
HMD High	Use HMD High Quality viewport preset.
Simple	Set material mode to Simple.
Basic	Set material mode to Basic.
Full	Set material mode to Full.
Bump	Toggle bump mapping on/off.
Shadows	Toggle shadows on/off.
Wire	Cycle through Wireframe combination: Wireframe on all meshes.Wireframe only on select meshes.No wireframes.
Mirror	Toggle mirroring the HMD view in the viewport on/off.
Res Up	Increase resolution rendered for HMD.
Res Down	Decrease resolution rendered for HMD.
MSAA Up	Increase Multisample value.
MSAA Down	Decrease Multisample value.

Misc Menu Items

Menu	Toggle the menu on/off.
UI	Toggle UI elements, like Annotations, on/off.
Move UI	Toggle which controller the UI elements appear on.
Swap Hands	Switch which hand is the pointer and non-pointer controller.
Laser	Toggle the laser pointer on/off.
LaserCone	Show the laser’s collision cone.
LaserNarrow	Make the laser’s collision cone angle narrower than default.
LaserMid	Make the laser’s collision cone angle the default size.
LaserWide	Make the laser’s collision code angle wider than default.
Laser Mode	Toggle between laser pointer and laser target modes.
Laser Tilt	Cycle through the laser pointer tilt angles.
P2N Reset	Move the user back the center of the environment with a normal scale.
Menu Gaze	Toggle between ‘point controller at menu’ and ‘look at menu’ interaction modes. The ‘look at’ mode requires you to look at the menu item you are interested in instead of pointing at it with your hands.

Modeling Menu Items

Layer	Add a new layer.
Pen	Activate the Pen tool.
Topology Pen	Activate the Topology Pen tool.
All	Select all.
Invert	Invert selection.
Grow	Grow selection.
Shrink	Shrink selection.
Connected	Select connected components.
Ring	Select ring.
Close Loop	Close loop selection.
Loop	Select loop.
Next	Move selection to next loop.
Prev	Move selection to previous loop.
Flip	Flip polygon.
Slice	Activate the Slice tool.
Bevel	Activate the Bevel tool.
Thicken	Activate the Thicken tool.
PType	Toggle polygon types.
SD F	Subdivide Flat.
SD Smooth	Subdivide Smooth.
SD SDS	Subdivide Subdiv surface.
SD Cat	Subdivide Catmull Clark surface.