The Nodes panel of the exporter user interface is used to select nodes that are to be excluded from export.  By default, all nodes in a scene are exported.  Blender bones are translated into DTS Nodes upon export, and nodes are generated for each dts object that is detected in the scene.

Nodes List

Buttons in the list correspond to nodes in the Blender scene.  If a button is turned on, the corresponding node will be exported.  If a button is turned off, the corresponding node will be excluded from export.  The export state of nodes may be toggled by clicking their button in the list, or via the "Match Pattern" and "Match by type" controls below the list.

Match pattern controls

These controls are used to turn all bones with names that match a certain pattern either on or off. The pattern is entered into the text box just to the left of the on and off buttons.

Here are some examples of patterns and the bone names that they would match. Matched bone names are shown in green and bone names that are not matched by a pattern are shown in red:

(Patterns and bone names are both case sensitive.)

Match by type controls

The Match by type controls are used to toggle the export status of either all object or bone nodes at once.

List Display Controls

The "Items per line" control is used to change how many node buttons are displayed on each line of the nodes list.  If the node names in your scene are too wide to fit within a button, this number may be decreased to improve the usability of the nodes list.  If the node names in your scene are relatively short, this number may be increased so that more nodes can be viewed in the list without scrolling.

See Also:

• Overview of the DTS File Format
• Setting Up DTS Shapes in Blender
• DTS Animations - Node Animations