Get started with 3ds Max 2021, the popular and powerful tool for 3D modeling, rendering, and animation.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Getting started with 3ds Max 2021
- Using the exercise files
- Choosing a workspace
- Choosing interface and tool defaults
- Setting preferences
- Displaying user interface elements
- Changing viewport colors
- Creating and setting project folders
- Creating and transforming objects
- Viewport navigation shortcuts
- Choosing display units and grid options
- Parametric modeling in the Modifier Stack
- Cloning an object as an instance
- Creating shapes and splines
- Extruding splines with the Sweep modifier
- Sub-object transforms and symmetry
- Activating the Modeling ribbon tools
- Extruding polygons with the Editable Poly ribbon
- Adding detail with Swift Loop and constraints
- Rounding corners with Chamfer
- Smoothing polygon edges
- Choosing a renderer
- Rendering in the viewport with ActiveShade
- Lighting a scene with an environment map
- Exploring the Slate Material Editor
- Editing a physical material
- Managing scene materials
- Mapping a material parameter
- Applying an OSL map and UVW coordinates
- Creating photometric lights
- Setting light intensity
- Adjusting light parameters
- Natural daylight with Sun Positioner
- Scene organization with layers and groups
- Linking objects in a transform hierarchy
- Choosing Time Configuration options
- Creating keyframes with Auto Key
- Editing keyframes in the track bar
- Creating keyframes with Set Key
- Editing function curves in the Curve Editor
- Creating a physical camera
- Common parameters in Render Setup
- Composing a shot with safe frames
- Rendering an image sequence
- Next steps
Taught by
Aaron F. Ross
