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Scene organization with layers and groups

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Scene organization with layers and groups

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- [Narrator] The need to organize your scene in various ways becomes quite important when you have lots of objects or if you were animating those objects. And this movie will look at two ways of seeing organization or layout using display layers and groups. First, I want to show you how to merge in another 3ds Max scene file, And that way you can combine scene files. Go to the file menu and choose import, merge. And we're taken to our current projects scenes folder. Scroll down a little bit, and I'm going to choose 05_01 drone.max and click Open. In the merge dialogue, we need to choose which objects we want to merge in. Let's just click all to select all objects and click OK. And now the toy drone model has been loaded in and all of its objects are selected. I'll click to de-select those. Now let's talk about display layers. Display layers are a way of showing hiding or freezing objects a frozen object is not…

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