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Shaping with Ribbon tools

Shaping with Ribbon tools - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Shaping with Ribbon tools

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- [Instructor] So, division surface modeling is a special case of polygon modeling, which means that all of the ordinary polygon modeling tools that you're used to will be applied just fine in this context. So far, I've been using the modify panel, but let's open up the modeling ribbon as well. I'll display that by clicking on the show ribbon button on the main tool bar, and if we select our seat cushion, if we don't have the modify panel display, we won't see much here. So, we need to make sure that the modify panel is visible. And, even so, we don't see all of our tools. And once again, as we learned earlier, due to the way that the modeling ribbon has been added to the 3ds Max tool-set, and it is a way to access the editable poly tools. But, we have to have an editable poly or edit poly selected in order to get at those tools. So here, in my modifier list, you'll see that I have an editable poly object. And, if I select that and turn on show end result, and enter into some…

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