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Animating the breaking object

Animating the breaking object - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Animating the breaking object

In this video, we are going to build and animate the rock object that we'll use to break our glass window pane. We'll be continuing with the file named Breaking Glass02, which has been carried forward from the last video. Our rock object, the geometry we'll use to break the glass, will be made out of a simple sphere. Let's create that sphere in the front view, so we can both properly size and line up what we've made with the breaks in our shard glass pieces. We'll make the conversion of the front view simply using Alt+W. Okay, once in place, we'll get to the Command panel on the right, clicking on the Sphere command. Positioning our mouse back on the view where the glass shard pieces intersect or come together, we'll then draw out our sphere object. Now why don't we make this somewhere around a Radius of about 100? Once we've got that in place, we'll name it Rock. Okay, let's now go ahead and get ourselves back to our four-view orientation. Once we are there, we'll take our new Rock…

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