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Managing display layers

Managing display layers - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Managing display layers

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- [Voiceover] When you've got a scene that has many objects in it, like my apartment here, then it's important to place the objects onto display layers. That'll give you the ability to show, or hide, a whole bunch of objects at once. You can also freeze them so you can't touch them, you can also determine whether they're renderable or not all from a single panel, which is the layers explorer. Just so we can see what we're doing a little bit better, I'm going to zoom out in this perspective view. Down here in the viewport navigation tools, I've got the field of view button, looks like a little angle, click on that and then just drag downward. And that'll let you zoom out to take in a greater angle of view and see more of the scene. Alright, I'll go to the select tool, and let's open up the layer explorer. It's found on the main toolbar, and, there it is, toggle layer explorer. It's a variation of the scene explorer that's dedicated to working with display layers. And as you can see…

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