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Navigating in viewports

Navigating in viewports - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Navigating in viewports

- [Voiceover] Let's look at viewport navigation, or changing our point of view in 3D space. So that we have something interesting to look at instead of just a sphere or a cube, let's create one of the stock 3ds Max plants. We can go into the create panel, in the geometry section, and from the pull-down list that's labeled standard primitives, we can click on that, and go to AEC Extended. That stands for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction. In that category, we've got foliage. To create a plant, we'll click on the Foliage button, and then select the plant from this list here. I'll scroll down and let's go for Society Garlic. Click on that, and then just click near the center of the perspective view at the origin there. Now I've got a garlic plant. Right click in the viewport to exit that creation mode, and then if I deselect the object, you'll notice that it degrades into this so called canopy view. Let's change that so we can see the foliage better. I'll reselect it, go up to…

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