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Customizing colors

Customizing colors - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Customizing colors

- [Instructor] In a previous movie, we defined the spacing for the home grid, and we learned about the difference between major and minor gridlines. We saw that due to the default color scheme, it's very difficult to differentiate between the major and minor gridlines. So let's customize the colors of the Viewport and the gridlines. Go to the Customize menu, and choose Customize User Interface. In the Customize User Interface dialog, go the Colors tab, and at the top we have a pull-down list that's labeled Viewports. And in the section below it, we can scroll down until we find the Viewport Background. Select that, and now we see displayed the color currently assigned to the Viewport Background. Notice the difference between that color swatch and the Viewport background itself. This is an artifact of the Gamma correction of the display in 3ds Max. This color swatch is actually not accurate. You're going to have to experiment a little bit in order to get the Viewport Background color…

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