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New in Max 2013 we have yet another way to streamline your workflow while working in viewports. And they live right over here and they're called Tabbed Layouts. Now as you see I already have a couple pulled out here and what I could do is go to this little arrow here, which is our Create Menu and when I click on this guy I can choose one of the layouts here. So let's say I want to create one with three viewports on the left and one massive one on the right. It now shows up in this little list here and I can easily bounce around while I'm working. So let's say I started out with Quad View and then I want to you know change the way I'm looking at my, my windows here. And of course I still retain full interactivity, so I can go to this viewport here, click on Home and now it has the perspective view. So I can continue to work with this and it will remember what I did there. So once again here's the Quad View and here is the other view where I changed this one to a Perspective View. I'll go to this one as well change that to Perspective View just to reiterate. So once again Quad View and the one with three different Perspective Views. To delete one of these tabs all I need to do is right-click on it and I can click Delete Tab. And as you saw there I can also rename a tab. So let's say I'm going to create one called Lighting for example or Texturing, I can just go ahead and call it whatever I need to. And then I can go ahead and boom, Save Configuration as a Preset. Preset recorded and now when I hover over here it tells me which viewport it is. This of course is great so I don't have to guess anymore. So this is for lighting when I'm ready to do my lighting or whatever I want to do, I can create one for animation, for posing, rendering, you know do all kinds of different tasks. So I highly recommend of course you name them especially if you're going to use these a lot. Of course like many of these menus I can go ahead and right-click up here and if I don't want to see this at all I can make it float or I can simply go ahead and just get rid of it all together. Some people don't like it because they feel that it takes more space than necessary. So it's really up to you and how you like to work. Me personally I don't mind having it here so I can quickly move around. Because when I'm working as you've seen already in this course, I do change the view quite often to demonstrate things. And I also do this while I'm actually modeling. So once again that is a look at the Tabbed Viewports, new in this iteration of 3ds Max.
| Course: | Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 34400 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-084-8 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-08 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |