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Using the Modeling ribbon

Using the Modeling ribbon - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using the Modeling ribbon

- [Instructor] The ribbon is an interface panel that has numerous tabs on it to perform functions such as modeling with an editable poly object. I've got the ribbon hidden currently so, let's display it. There's a button on the main tool bar to show or hide the ribbon. And if nothing is selected, most of these tabs on the ribbon will be empty. If we go to Free Form or Selection, it's just blank. If we go to Object Paint we finally see something. We're interested in the Modeling tab. And that has numerous tools applicable to the editable poly object or the edit poly modifier. The edit poly modifier has pretty much all the same tools as the editable poly object, but the modifier is destructive. In other words, it can perform topology changes that cannot be reversed and that's kind of a paradox to have a destructive tool in the middle of a nondestructive work flow like a modifier stack. So in general, we don't use the edit poly modifier very much. We almost always convert to editable…

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