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Position objects with Select and Move

Position objects with Select and Move - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Position objects with Select and Move

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- [Narrator] To aid in our exploration of the 3ds Max tools. I'm providing this scene of a courtyard. We can use it to practice transforming objects, and that's moving, rotating, and scaling. If you don't have the exercise files, then you can just create a few primitives, and use those to practice the transforms. Also, when you open this scene file for the first time, don't be alarmed if you see a bunch of checker patterns on the objects. That's just the materials being compiled for display in the view port. It only takes a few seconds and it will only happen once. The transform tools are on the main toolbar. We have move, rotate, and scale. First, let's look at positioning or translating objects. We can choose the select and move tool, and then click on an object in any view port. I'll go down to the perspective view and as I hover my mouse around an object, I get selection highlighting in yellow. When I click on that…

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