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Navigating a scene with walkthrough mode

Navigating a scene with walkthrough mode - 3ds Max Tutorial

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

Navigating a scene with walkthrough mode

- Walkthrough mode is a tool for navigating a scene in a first person method, similar to a game engine. Walk through mode is found on the navigation toolkit down here in the lower right corner. It's hiding underneath the pan tool. And pan is the little hand icon, hold that pan button down and choose a little walking man icon, which is walkthrough load. Now the cursor turns to a dot and a circle. And if you click and drag, you can pan left and right, tilt up and down, or both. If you want to move forward, you use the W key, just hold that down and you'll start to move forward pretty slowly. Moving backward is done with the S key on the keyboard. Now you can change the speed of movement in a couple of different ways. One is with the Q key. If you press Q, you're going to toggle the acceleration of the movement. And then once I move forward with W, I'm moving more quickly. Press Q again, and press S and I moving…

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