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Setting preferences

Setting preferences - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting preferences

- [Voiceover] With a new installation of 3ds Max, you're gonna want to change a couple of the key system preferences for the application. Those will be found in Customize, Preferences. In this dialog there are many settings. We're just gonna look at a few of them. First and foremost, already highlighted here is the number of scene undos in the General tab. I strongly recommend increasing that. In my experience, if I make a big mistake in a 3D program, I usually have to undo more than 20 times to get back to where I was. Of course the higher this number is, the more memory you will be using, because every command will have to be stored in RAM. Hopefully you've got 16 gigabytes of RAM. I'm gonna turn this up to 100. Let's now go over to the Files tab, and we have some file handling options here. I recommend that you enable this one that says Convert local file paths to relative. What this is going to do is it's going to display any file and folder locations relative to your current…

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