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Selecting sub-objects - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2018 Essential Training
Selecting sub-objects
- [Instructor] Now let's remove part of the sphere. Remember our bowl is really only half of a sphere so you wanna delete the top half of that sphere. There are lots of ways to do that. In this chapter we're looking at the modifier stack. So let's look at how to remove geometry or remove subobjects or parts of an object using the modifier stack. I'll select my sphere, go over to the modify panel, and add our first modifier. There is a pulldown that says Modifier List in a little down-facing arrow. Click on that and you get a popup that lists all of the modifiers that are applicable to the currently selected object. And the one I want here is near the top. It's a selection modifier, it's called Poly Select and they are a bunch of types of selection... I'm gonna show you issue that could come up. I'm gonna actually intentionally do it sort of wrong so that you can see what the implications of so-called topology dependence are. In other words, if you follow the wrong word flow, then you…
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