Subtitles of the Movie

If you right-click on the Perspective label and you go to this Other over here you can see I can access some other modes. If I go to the Smooth mode, you can see that my objects are displayed in the Smooth mode right now. The difference between the Smooth mode and the Smooth plus Highlights mode is, if I go back to Smooth plus Highlights you can see that I have some highlights on the objects right now, which is pretty much because there are some Default lights in Max and those are casting those highlights. Some other modes I can access are Facets plus Highlights, so you can see all the objects are faceted right now. If I go all the way down there's something called Bounding Box where all my objects are displayed as boxes and you might be wondering, why would you ever use this? Well, believe it or not, this can be really a time-saver for you because if you have a heavy scene you can just display objects in that particular Viewport as Bounding Boxes. You can also do this at a per-object level and also as you're rotating around the objects. Let's go back to Smooth plus Highlights. To navigate in any Viewport it's good to have a 3-button mouse in Max with a scroll wheel, like the middle-mouse scroll wheel. So, right now, if I hold down my Alt key on the keyboard, and if I press my middle-mouse button scroll wheel down I can do something called Tumble. Just the middle-mouse button press down. Track, and just the middle-mouse scroll wheel, or the middle-mouse button, right there is Dolly. You can also do this by going at the bottom right corner of your screen and if I click on this button over here called Awk Rotate I get this little yellow circle. If I go to the center I can Awk Rotate around the objects. I can also go outside and you can see how my cursor changes and I'm pretty much going to do like a roll. Some other buttons over here, like this first one is just a Zoom in and out in every Viewport. The next one is Zooming in all four Views. This one over here is called Zoom Extend, so if I'm right now in my Front view and if I do Zoom Extend, look how it zooms in that View, all the objects. If you watch carefully that button has a little dot or a little arrow just to the right of it, to the bottom. Whenever you see something like that in Max that means that there are some hidden buttons underneath, so if I keep that pressed you have something called Zoom Extend Selected. So, let's say, for example, if I select this object, and that's how you just select an object in Max, just click on it. And if I click Zoom Extend Selected you can see that it tries to zoom the Torus the best it can in that View. If I say Select this View, and if I say Zoom Extend Selected, right there, you can see it tries to zoom the Torus the best it can in that View. Then you have Zoom Extend All, which will zoom all the objects in all four Views, and just, if you keep that button pressed again, you have Zoom Extend Selected All. So, try to zoom the Torus in all four Views. This one is nothing but my simple Region Zoom. Then you have our Pan, and the Awk Rotate, which we talked about, and then you have your Mini-Max Toggle, which pretty much allows me to maximize the Viewport, right there. The hot key for that is Alt W. You can also go to the meeting point of the four Viewports and simply drag like this. OK? If I go to the Perspective view and if I keep this button pressed over here, this Region Zoom, I get something called a Field of View for the Perspective view. The Grid over here can be turned On and off by right-clicking, and Show Grid in any View, or simply the hot key G, as in Grid. So, please play around with all these user interface tools right here, right at the bottom right corner of your screen, and also get yourself familiar with some of the names we talked about.