M1A2 - Customizing the interface - Optimizing the Customized User Interface Video Lecture | 3DS MAX - Architecture Design Tutorial (Introductory Course)

in this class we'll get familiar with
the max system interface and functions
we also are going to learn about some
customization options to facilitate
design work
you
as you learn in the complementary
introducing 3dsmax course the interface
is divided into sections and each is
responsible for specific actions each
group provides visual and organizational
tools to facilitate inputting
user-defined settings
we can see some of these tools on the
customize menu which provides some
options for defining color
name and tool shortcuts each one tabbed
for his own menu option
the keyboard option makes changes in
keyboard shortcuts we can select a group
category function and shortcuts for
attributes to facilitate your modeling
process
you
and in color we change the element color
in the scene
as we explained in the example on scale
gizmo we can change the default colors
which are X red white green and z blue
to whatever you like
we're going to change only the x-axis
and change the color in the color field
after that we will change some visual
and function tools in the interface to
get familiar with the max tool options
getting back to the customize menu see
the show you I option we can add or
remove toolbars in the interface here
see what happens when we unselect an
item on the hide toolbar menu
now let's aim
settings in the design you also see the
configure user paths option on the
customize menu
this tool really facilitates our work in
3dsmax
as we can define the folders on this
screen where files are saved for the
current design
as a default setting the software
creates several folders based on each
action
these folders are located in my
documents in the computer but we can
also define another path so they are
saved elsewhere
the render output option is for
attributing another folder path to this
action
click modify and select the output
folder click use path and then ok for
confirmation
now let's access the render setup and
access the render output group and then
click files
see the folder is now open that was
specified on the configure user path
screen
and the other actions displayed on the
configure user path screen can be
modified as you like
so in this class we have learned about
tools helping us to do professional
design work
in some cases these tools are only
visual but others help to define
functions which need to be executed