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Editing unlocked container parameters

Editing unlocked container parameters - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Editing unlocked container parameters

- [Instructor] In last week's movie we saw how to author a container to lock or unlock certain parameters for editing. Now we'll see how that works from within a destination scene that inherits the content from a source definition file. We'll see how to make changes to those source definition files, and save them out to new source definition files. Load in that container. Go to the Tools menu, and choose Containers, Inherit Container, in the Current Project Scenes folder, go into the Container's sub-folder, and select SofaContainer004_edit_unlocked.maxc. Click Open. Let's maximize the perspective view with Alt + W, and orbit around with Alt and middle mouse button. Select the container, if it's not already selected. Go to the Modify panel. And we see that the container starts out in an open, unsaved state. If all we need to do is make edits within this destination scene, then we don't need to close the container.…

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