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Collecting objects in groups - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2017 Essential Training
Collecting objects in groups
- [Voiceover] When constructing a scene such as, for example, an interior architecture scene, like the one we're gonna build here, it's super useful to containerize selections into groups. In other words, create a functional unit which will allow you to select multiple objects with a single click, and in 3ds Max that's known as a group. The stairs are a perfect example of that. I don't wanna ever really select an individual stair, when I'm trying to build my loft, I just wanna select the staircase as a unit and move it or do whatever to it. Let's create a group. I wanna select all the objects, and then go up to the Group menu, and choose Group to create the group of the selected objects. And give it a name, I strongly recommend that you leave the word group in the name of the group, because if I called this staircase with nothing else on it, that would not be a clear indicator that what I was dealing with was not an object, but rather a group of objects. So, it's kind of a rule, you…
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Choosing a coordinate system4m 17s
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Choosing a transform center3m 7s
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Duplicating objects with Array6m 10s
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Duplicating objects with Clone5m 11s
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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection2m 11s
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Selecting with Window/Crossing3m 20s
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Collecting objects in groups6m 16s
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