Status Bar

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Status Bar

The Status bar gives you a quick overview about the current System hardware usage (RAM, CPU, GPU), global audio levels and timecode

Quick access to project notifications and their history

Command line section to enter Scripts

Switch to enable/disable the Fullscreen Renderer and to mute/activate audio preview

Switch between Value Mode and Programmer Mode  

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User Interface

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01

Command Line Section

quick access to the script console.

02

Notifications

Notification and information from VERTEX
Actions: left-click on the notification section to open an overlay window with a chronological history of the last System notifications

03

Inspector Mode

Switch to Advanced Inspector Mode to show more properties of an item in the Inspector
Most of the properties in Advanced mode are for edge-cases. To keep the Inspector more clean for your daily use-cases, VERTEX offers this filter option
Default: Standard

04

Value or Programer Mode

Switch between Value Mode (Default) and Programmer Mode and choose how you prefer to handle and manipulate values

05

Hardware usage and Performance

System hardware usage: displays the current usage of your GPU  (total sum and VRAM usage), your CPU (total sum of all cores), and your System Memory (RAM).
If the Fullscreen Renderer is enabled on one of your screens, current render performance is displayed in FPS

06

Mute Preview Audio
VU Meter

Click on the loudspeaker icon to mute/ un-mute your local Systems preview audio output.
Hovering your mouse pointer over the icon will temporarily show VU meters for both WAVE and ASIO audio.

07

Enter Control Viewer in Full Screen

Starts the local Control Viewer in Full Screen
quit with CTRL + F5

08

Enter Full Screen Renderer

starts the Fullscreen Renderer on your local System
quit Fullscreen Renderer with CTRL + F or ESC
This button is not available in VERTEX Touch Edition

 

warningGPU Usage in status bar will not work with AMD and Intel Graphic Cards
When your PC has an AMD GPU inside, the GPU usage information in the status bar is not available.
When using an AMD or Intel GPU, VERTEX will only show CPU and RAM usage.