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Customizing colors and hotkeys - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2017 Essential Training
Customizing colors and hotkeys
- [Voiceover] In the previous movie, we talked about the color scheme of the grid. And how a minor grid line is a different color from a major grid line, and it's extremely difficult to see the difference in the default color scheme here. We can change the color of the Viewport background and the grid in order to make it much more legible. Let's do that, we'll go into the Customize menu and choose Customize User Interface. In that dialog we've got a bunch of tabs here, let's choose the colors tab, and the default elements that we'll be working with are the Viewports, we can scroll down inside there, we're looking for a Viewport background. Select that, and we can change the color of the Viewport background. Now this is the current color, but notice how much darker it is in the actual Viewport, and that's because gamma correction is currently enabled. And we'll talk more about gamma later when we look at rendering, but basically what's happening is that the entire color scheme of the…
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Getting familiar with the interface4m 52s
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Using the Create and Modify panels3m 50s
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Navigating in viewports6m 13s
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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate5m 43s
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Using hotkeys3m 11s
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Specifying display units3m 7s
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Specifying system units4m 17s
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Defining the home grid3m 27s
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Choosing shading modes4m 26s
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Configuring viewports2m 49s
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Customizing colors and hotkeys3m 44s
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Customizing hotkeys5m 18s
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