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Creating shapes - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2022 Essential Training
Creating shapes
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we'll look at spline modeling. Spline is just a fancy word for line or a curved line and there are four types of splines in 3ds Max. To create splines we can use the Create panel. Select the category labeled shapes. In 3ds Max terminology, a shape is a curve object. The first category of splines or shapes is shape primitives such as a circle or a rectangle. And these are parametric objects with attributes such as radius or length and width and there are similar to 3D primitives in that respect. So for example, I can create a circle primitive by activating the Circle tool and clicking and dragging and I've just created that circle in the Front viewport The Circle tool is still active so I can click and drag in the Perspective view and create another circle and right click to exit creation mode, orbit around with Alt and middle mouse button and we can see that depending upon which viewport we…
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Creating shapes4m 34s
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Editing Bezier splines5m 17s
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Setting shape detail with interpolation3m 58s
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Modeling with the Extrude modifier5m 4s
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Extruding along a path with the Sweep modifier4m 13s
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Exporting paths from Adobe Illustrator4m 1s
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Importing Illustrator paths to 3ds Max3m 54s
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Adding a Bevel modifier4m 37s
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Controlling level of detail for a Bevel modifier5m 3s
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Modeling typography with TextPlus6m 30s
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Manipulating and fine-tuning TextPlus4m 36s
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