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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection

Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection

- [Voiceover] If you have a scene that has a lot of objects in it, then it's very important that you'd be able to focus in on just the thing that you're working on. We don't have a ton of objects here in this scene, but we have enough that it would be useful if we could just focus in on just one, or in 3ds Max terminology, isolate the object. And to do that, just select your object, and then down here, below the timeline, there is a mysterious little blue button Isolate Selection toggle. And when you click on that, everything else in the scene is hidden, and we can just look at that one object. We can actually select other objects in the scene even though they're hidden. We could go into the scene explorer to do that. But if we selected another object, that would not make it visible. If we want to make things visible, we have to turn Isolate back off again. But Isolate's super useful that you'd use it all the time. Here, the thing I want to show you is Lock Selection. And this is less…

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