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Creating primitives

Creating primitives - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Creating primitives

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- [Instructor] Let's create some objects starting with some basic primitives. A primitive is a building block object, and there are two places we can create from. There's the Create menu, and we can go into Standard Primitives and choose one of these, such as Sphere, or we can go over to the Command panel, and the default panel is Create, it's got a plus sign, and below that are a bunch of categories of objects. The default category is Geometry. It's indicated by a little circle, and in this context, Geometry means an object, and the default type of Geometry is Standard Primitives, but you can see there are a bunch of categories. We'll stick with Standard Primitives for now, and we can create an object by clicking on the appropriate button. That will enter into a creation tool. The default tool is Select Object, as seen on the main toolbar. When we click on one of these buttons, we're exiting out of the Select Object tool and entering into the Object Creation tool, such as Sphere…

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