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3ds Max setup

3ds Max setup

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3ds Max setup

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- [Instructor] 3ds Max is Autodesk's other 3D application. And like Maya it can be used for a lot of different applications. It's primarily used in design but you can also use it for gaming as well as feature films, visual effects, and so on. Now when working with files, 3ds Max is project-based. So, if we go to our ExerciseFiles folder, you'll see we have a 3dsMax folder. Inside that folder are a number of subdirectories and this allows us to organize our project so that way we can move them from computer to computer. Now all of your 3ds Max files will be found in this scenes folder. Now before we get started with 3ds Max, we do need to set that project. So we go into File, Project, Set Active Project. And then all we have to do is go to that ExerciseFiles folder and click on 3dsMax and hit Select Folder. Now once we have that selected, we can load whatever file we want. So if we go to File, Open, you'll see that…

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