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Working with the Scene Explorer

Working with the Scene Explorer - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Working with the Scene Explorer

- [Voiceover] Once you've got a few objects in your scene, it's useful to employ the scene explorer or outliner view. And I previously hid the scene explorer. Let's bring it back and go up to the main toolbar here and click on toggle scene explorer. And if we want to, we can dock it to the interface. And this is a list of all the objects in the scene and we can do fun things here, like for example, hide objects. That's what this little eye icon is here. We can go through and hide stuff or you can select multiple objects. I can select an object then hold down shift and select all those continuous objects and then for example, hide them all at once or unhide them all at once. We can rename objects here. For example, I've got these two that are just labeled Box 001. I can select that and then click on it a second time. Don't double-click, but leave a long pause between selecting and then selecting a second time. And we can call this one Staircase Side 001 and we can also additionally…

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