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Part I: Getting Started with 3ds Max

FIGURE 2.22
By using Clipping Planes, you can reveal the interior of a model.

Cross-Ref
See Chapter 19, “Configuring and Aiming Cameras,” for more coverage on Field of View. n

Grabbing a viewport image
It’s not rendering, but you can grab an image of the active viewport using Tools ➪ Grab Viewport. Before
grabbing the image, a simple dialog box appears asking you to add a label to the grabbed image. The image
is loaded into the Rendered Frame Window, and its label appears in the lower-right corner of the image, as
shown in Figure 2.23. The Tools ➪ Grab Viewport menu also includes options for creating, viewing, and
renaming animated sequence files, which provides a quick way to create animation previews.
Cross-Ref
More on working with animation previews is covered in Chapter 21, “Understanding Animation and Keyframes.” n

Altering the viewport layout
Now that you’ve started to figure out the viewports, you may want to change the number and size of view-
ports displayed. The Layout panel, shown in Figure 2.24, in the Viewpoint Configuration dialog box, offers
several layouts as alternatives to the default layout (not that there is anything wrong with the default and its
four equally sized viewports).

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