This tutorial belongs to very basic concepts of 3Ds max. These basic concepts will prove a guidance star for the beginners. Here we shall discuss about some extra tips and techniques using in 3ds max.
There are different main menus in 3ds max and when you set them one by one, the toolbar automatically changes with respect to main menu. When you start 3ds max learning, then you are informed of object basic movement and similarly camera manipulation.
The beginners are said to be practical in learning these basic tools because they are frequently use in every kind of modeling. To learn this concept practically, just open 3ds max. Go to create panel and choose box. Using move, rotate and scale tools, transform it into different shapes.
One thing that is necessary to remember that is object pivot point. Make sure that at transforming position, the pivot point is in the centre. Sometime the selection tools arrow are disappeared so bring them back by pressing short key “X”. If you have two objects in your scene then you can move them with respect to one another. Similarly when you have a lot of objects and you want to select them together then you can select them with region selection.
You can extrude the object for further changing by selecting the object faces and then drag it to outward position. The extrude option is really helpful in modeling instantly. If you want to learn 3ds max basics at once, then this tutorial is the best for this purpose. For more learning watch the following video tutorial.