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Specifying display units

Specifying display units - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Specifying display units

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- [Instructor] Scene layout is the process of setting up a scene in 3D and it usually means importing objects and positioning them in a larger context, and that's what I've done here. I have a scene already laid out with a lot of objects, and I'm going to use that to demonstrate the most important principle, the very first thing that you need to get under your belt with scene layout is scale. The size of the world and the size of objects actually matters, especially when you get to physical materials and lighting. So you can't expect good results if you have random scale to your objects, and it's really advised that in 3ds Max you model everything to Unity scale. In other words, the object in the 3D scene is measured the same as it would be in the real world. If you have a scene open and you don't know the scale of objects, there's an old trick to just find out basically what the scale is by just building a box. I'll go into the Create panel, geometry, standard primitives, box, click…

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