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Adding polygon edges with Paint Connect

Adding polygon edges with Paint Connect - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Adding polygon edges with Paint Connect

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- [Instructor] paint connect is a tool for quickly sketching detail on an editable poly object. You can add or remove points, edges and polygons just by painting on an editable poly. I've got a simple plain here that's been converted to editable poly, I'll select that and go to the modified panels, so that I'll be in modify mode and then the ribbon tools in the modeling tab will be available and here we have paint connect and it works in any object or sub object mode. I do recommend being in vertex sub object mode, so that you'll be able to see the vertices and visualize the polygon structure. That can help prevent mistakes such as extra vertices in the middle of edges. So, we got paint connect here and if we click on that, it's activated and it's got a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts that all do different things. To create a vertex, just drag over an edge. So, I've created a point there. I'll undo that with…

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