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Shaping with Editable Poly Ribbon tools

Shaping with Editable Poly Ribbon tools - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Shaping with Editable Poly Ribbon tools

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- [Instructor] Here's where the magic begins. We can start shaping up our subdivided object using the Editable Poly base object as a control cage. We have a limited number of control vertices on the Editable Poly. Those are just a method for us to shape the resulting subdivided surface. I'll select the object. And so that we can see this a little bit better, I'm actually going to disable the edged faces with F4. Go down to Editable Poly base object in the Modifier Stack. And there is a new sub-object type that we haven't seen yet, and it's the Border sub-object type. That'll allow us to select all of the outer edges on the object all at once. I'll go into Border sub-object type and then click on the edge here, and we can see that border. And additionally, enable Show end result. Turn that on. And now we see an overlay of the original Editable Poly here in orange and yellow to indicate the selection, and the subdivided object is below that. Cool, so with that border selected, we can…

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