Learn here about viewport canvas in 3d studio max.
This tool is added in the 3d studio max recently for the realistic look of your object. It is used for painting if the model has diffuse setting of material. The viewport canvas makes the model realistic and worthy because of its rich painting.
This tutorial is slightly belongs to editable poly as well as UVW mapping. The object is converted into editable poly then it is assigned material from material editor. You can get material editor with short cut key pressing “M” and we have already chosen material for our model. When we are required to use viewport canvas, then it is first painted in Adobe Photoshop where we do some basic color setting. Suppose we are going to apply canvas tool on leaf model, then we shall darken the veins of leaf to make it realistic and actual as in real reference image. Go back to 3d studio max and open the scene there. In following tutorial you will see that we are taking a quick review over viewport canvas in 3d studio max 2011.
Through this method, we can customize the object and add some detail to our scene. In this tutorial we have vase in our scene and we are required to customize the object to get desired result. This is described here in this video tutorial. So watch the video and learn the concept to perform it in 3ds max at home.