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Understanding Triangle Groups in Maxwell

Understanding Triangle Groups in Maxwell - Maxwell Render Tutorial

From the course: Maxwell Render Essential Training

Understanding Triangle Groups in Maxwell

- [Instructor] In this session we'll take a look at working with triangle groups or selection sets in Maxwell Studio, which once stored, are found under the geometry tab of the selected objects parameters. Continue to use your scene, or if you prefer, grab the relevant one from the exercise files folder. Change the viewport to hidden lines. Our goal next is to create a number of selection sets, or as known in Maxwell Studio, to create triangle groups to pin one so that we can add more than one material to this single object. From the toolbar activate triangles mode and notice the change to the cursor in the viewport. As mentioned before, I'd rather you use my modeling software to create selection sets since I find it easier than working with Studio's selection tools. But it is, of course, a personal preference. If you intend working with triangle groups in Maxwell Studio, you'll definitely want to take the time to learn the necessary shortcut keys to speed up your workflow. From the…

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