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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate

Transforming objects with Move and Rotate - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate

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- [Instructor] To aid in our exploration of the 3ds Max tools I am providing this scene of a modern office. We can use that to practice transforming objects moving, rotating and scaling them. If you don't have the exercise files, then you can just create a few primitives and then use those to practice the transforms. So, the transform tools are found on the main toolbar. We have move, rotate and scale. We can choose the move tool and then click on an object in any viewport. In this scene I've frozen most of the geometry, in other words, I've made it impossible to select everything except for a few objects such as the furniture. We'll look at how to freeze and unfreeze objects later in the course but for now let's just take a look at how to manipulate or transform objects. So, in the top left and front views. I can move objects in the space of the viewport itself and that's going to be an orthographic viewport meaning that it doesn't indicate depth, it's a 2D view, so when we select an…

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