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Contents

Interacting with the Interface ..............................................................................................30
Gaining quick access with the right-click quadmenus ...............................................30
Using Caddy controls ................................................................................................31
Understanding the button color cues ........................................................................32
Using drag-and-drop features ....................................................................................33
Controlling spinners..................................................................................................33
Understanding modeless and persistent dialog boxes ................................................33
Getting Help .......................................................................................................................34
Using the InfoCenter toolbar .....................................................................................34
Viewing the Essential Skills Movies ...........................................................................36
Using the browser-based reference guides .................................................................37
Using the rest of the Help menu ................................................................................38
Summary ............................................................................................................................38
Chapter 2: Controlling and Configuring the Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Understanding 3D Space .....................................................................................................39
Learning Axonometric versus Perspective ..................................................................40
Learning Orthographic and Isometric views ..............................................................40
Discovering the viewports in Max .............................................................................41
Using the Navigation Gizmos ..............................................................................................42
Working with the ViewCube .....................................................................................42
Using the SteeringWheels ..........................................................................................43
Tutorial: Navigating the active viewport ....................................................................46
Controlling Viewports with a Scroll Wheel Mouse ..............................................................47
Using the Viewport Navigation Controls .............................................................................47
Zooming a view .........................................................................................................48
Panning a view ..........................................................................................................49
Walking through a view ............................................................................................49
Rotating a view ..........................................................................................................49
Maximizing the active viewport .................................................................................50
Controlling camera and spotlight views .....................................................................52
Changing the Viewport Display ...........................................................................................52
Undoing and saving viewport changes ......................................................................53
Disabling and refreshing viewports ...........................................................................53
Viewing materials in the viewports ............................................................................53
Displaying lights and shadows in the viewports ........................................................54
Enabling Exposure Control and Ambient Occlusion .................................................55
Configuring viewport lighting and shadows ..............................................................55
Locating mesh problems with xView .........................................................................57
Configuring the Viewports ..................................................................................................58
Setting the viewport rendering method .....................................................................58
Altering the viewport layout ......................................................................................64
Using Safe Frames .....................................................................................................66
Understanding Adaptive Degradation ........................................................................67

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