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Collecting objects in groups

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Collecting objects in groups

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- [Instructor] When you wish to select and or manipulate multiple objects as a unit, you can collect the objects into a group. Groups also help to declutter the Scene Explorer by reducing the number of objects listed at the group level. I'll create a group from the three parts of this light fixture and I can select them in the View Ports by drawing a rectangle around them because I've frozen all of the other objects in the scene. We'll talk more about hiding and freezing objects and layers later. For now we can see in the Scene Explorer that Lamp cord, Lamp frame, and Lamp glass are selected. Go into the main Max menus to Group, choose Group, and give it a name. And I do recommend leaving the word group in the name of the group, just to make it easier to identify in the list. I'll call this Lamp group001. And click Okay. Now they're all grouped together. And we can see that there's a hierarchy here in the Scene…

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