When Medium opens, you see a brief introductory sequence letting you know you are in Medium, see Image 1.
- Medium User Guide
- Introduction
- Sculpting in Medium
- Medium Settings
- Work with the scene graph
Learn the basics of the Medium workspace.
Medium provides you with a limitless VR canvas, so you can sketch ideas out of thin air in any direction. The ultra-responsive Oculus Touch controllers help speed up the sculpting process, and the expansive virtual workspace makes it easy to manipulate models.
Medium Workspace
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The first time you use Medium, you are asked whether you are right-handed or left-handed. Select the hand that you would like to use as your sculpting had, see Image 2.
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After that, you can start sculpting right away, or check out the tutorials (recommended for first-timers):
- Start Sculpting: Choose to see the tool hand (dominant hand) and Support hand.
- Watch Tutorial: Choose to watch the Introduction video. Follow along and control the playback with the UI on your support hand.
In your environment, you see a ground plane, and a surrounding domed background called the sky box. To learn about how to customize visibility of the ground plane and sky box, see world settings.
Tool Hand and Support Hand
You sculpt in Medium using your Touch controllers. Each Touch controller is represented in Medium as one of your virtual hands, and each hand has a different function.
If you are right-handed:
- Your right hand is your Tool hand. You use your Tool hand to use a sculpting tool or to select or use any of the UI.
- Your left hand is your Support hand. Your support hand holds menus.
- With both hands, you can move, rotate, and scale nodes in the scene (sculpt layers or other objects).
If you are left-handed:
- Your left hand is your Tool hand. You use your Tool hand to use a sculpting tool or to select or use any of the UI.
- Your right hand is your Support hand. Your support hand holds menus.
- With both hands, you can move, rotate, and scale nodes in the scene (sculpt layers or other objects).
Your preference for right or left-handedness is preserved between sessions. See Setting Handedness to your dominant hand.
Button Mappings
Use this guide to help identify what each button on the Oculus Touch controllers is used for in Medium. Please note: The guide below represents button mappings when the right hand is selected as Tool (dominate) hand.
Shortcuts
Below are a list of avaiabe shortcuts in Medium.
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Undo | Move Support hand thumbstick left. |
Redo | Move Support hand thumbstick right. |
Open Tool Tray | Push Support hand thumbstick forward. |
Swap Tool Mode |
Double tap gear button on Tool hand. |
alt-Tool (define) | To learn about how to use Alternate tools, see Tool setting menu.
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alt-Tool (select) |
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Open Scene Graph | Pull Support hand thumbstick backward. |
Add Layer with active layer’s attributes via Shortcut Menu |
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Multi-select in Scene Graph | Squeeze the Support hand trigger, and while squeezing, select multiple elements with the Tool hand trigger. |
Multi-select in Asset Browser | Squeeze the Support hand trigger, and while squeezing, select multiple assets with the Tool hand trigger. |
Multi-select in scene | With the Scene Graph open, squeeze the Support hand trigger, and while squeezing, select multiple elements directly in the scene. |
Open Control Panel | Tap the yellow Control Panel button on the Tool hand. |
Tool Settings | Tap the gear button on the Tool hand. |
Change the size of your tool | There are two ways to change the size of your Tool: Option 1:
Option 2:
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Change the tool applicator’s transform |
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Select an element in the scene |
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Transform an element in the scene by hand | Pull your Support hand thumbstick backward, then aim the Tool hand at the element and squeeze the Tool hand trigger:
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Refresh asset browser directory | When managing assets within your computer directory with the asset browser, press Refresh above the directory tree to ask the browser to send you the most updated version of the directory you're viewing. |
What's next?
Now that you have learned about the Workspace Basics in Medium, check out Sculpting Basics next.
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