11.2 Customize User Interface

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The UI of 3D-Coat is fully customizable. By default there are three UI themes present upon installation. They are “Dark”, “Grey” and “Light”. You can change a UI them by going to Edit–>Preferences–>Load, you will be directed to a folder named “OptionsPresets”, there

are 3 .xml files in it, each ot them is corresponding to a theme, to load the themes, simply select one .xml file and click Open. You can of course edit many more parts of the UI and create your own UI theme and save it as an .xml file. Just go to Edit->Preferences. Here you can customize the color of text, interface background, header, buttons, grid, background, and so on. You can also turn on/off 3D button style, Gradient menus. After all these done, just save the .xml file, all the UI & hot keys and other customized information are stored in it. You can load it anytime or share with your friends. Simply press the button Save in Preferences panel. You can even change the icons of the tools to you own, just go to the installation folder of 3D-Coat, in the path textures\icons you will find the source PSD files of the icons, they are “baseicons.psd” and “SmallIcons.psd”, open the PSD file in Photoshop and draw your own icons. When finished, save them as DDS format, keep the name and replace the original “baseicons. dds” and “SmallIcons.dds”. Next time you start 3D-Coat, it will load the new icons.