From the course: 3ds Max: Character Rigging

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Drawing the leg chain

Drawing the leg chain - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Drawing the leg chain

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Let's go ahead and create the skeleton for our character. Now we're going to do this in steps. We're going to start off with the leg chain. So let's go ahead and do that. But before I do this, let's go ahead and set our character up. I'm actually going to go ahead and select all my geometry here. And I'm going to hit Alt+x. And what that does is it puts the character into x-ray mode. So you can actually see through the character and this will help us to visualize the character as we grid. And if we want, we can set our display mode to edged faces. So now I've got a view of my wire frame. But I can also see through it to get an x-ray view. So this will make the rigging much easier. Now before we actually go any further, I do want to freeze my geometry layer so I don't accidentally select it. So I'm going to go back into my layers window here. And then, for my geometry, I'm just going to go ahead and highlight freeze. So remember you want to turn on x-ray before you freeze. And then…

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