3Ds Max Tutorial - 14 - Editable Polygons Video Lecture | Learn 3D Modelling with Autodesk 3Ds Max - 3D & Animation

sup guys welcome to your fourteenth 3d
studio max tutorial and in this tutorial
we're gonna be covering editable
polygons now this is probably what
you're gonna use when you're making the
rest of your animations from now on
actually like character models or you
know cars or anything actually so let's
go ahead and get right into it
go ahead and click sphere and create a
sphere and just press W on your keyboard
for a move tool and bring it up and you
know bring it out so it's into view
there we go
so now that we created a spear what we
would usually do according to our last
tutorial is right-click it and create
editable spline but what we want to do
is right-click this press convert to and
convert to editable poly now I can't
show you this route to my screen
recorder will mess up it again I'm going
to right click it convert to convert to
editable poly so you do that and I'll
see you in a second alright guys I just
selected this converted to editable poly
and it brought up our modify tab and it
shows that this is indeed an editable
poly so there are two different ways
that we can alter this and that is with
our modifiers is and those are things we
learned before that does weird
transformations do this or we can work
with each of the individual sub objects
so if we go ahead and expand this menu
right here we can see them all the
vertex is all the points that make up
the object the edges let me see I could
probably scrolling this one a little
better the edges are these aligns the
edges are what connect the vertex is you
don't want to work with border usually
unless you're doing something real
specific the poly is each one of these
shapes or each face of it pretty much so
the Polly's are the faces and the last
one the elements if you have any like if
you have like a couple objects in here
then it's gonna select the entire thing
so you don't really want to work with
the elements a lot what we're gonna be
doing is work with poly like 99% in time
poly and probably polygons so we can
work with the faces but for right now go
to vertex
that's where we're gonna be working with
and let's just zoom in a little bit
right there and another thing I want to
point out let's just zoom in a little
bit for more anytime we have one of
these sub objects selected it's gonna
turn red so we can select them by
clicking on them we can also click and
drag to select a multiple amount or if
we want to select non-adjacent ones we
can click hold ctrl click click and then
we get like random ones if we hold down
control and click so that's how we
select various whether it Galt's sub
objects and again once you select them
they're gonna turn red now a problem
that we have with selecting sub objects
is here's what happens whenever you
select a sub object like this it doesn't
only select that ones you see what it
does is it looks through this and if you
can see in this one person just
selecting them all it not only selects
the ones in front right here but it
selects the ones behind it too and
that's because if I turn this whenever I
select it the box here what's a better
way to see this like right here whenever
I select these up here it looks through
and now you can see it selected the ones
behind it too so not only the ones that
you could see but the ones through that
the ones you couldn't see as well so
this is a problem whenever we're trying
to work with only this side of the
spirit so what do we want to do that
whenever we could select it like this it
only selects these and not the ones
behind it - like there well let's go
back home and what we can do is check
this little box you take a break here
for a second and this is called ignore
back-facing and what this little thing
does is it only selects the ones with
the normals pointing towards you or in
other words the only selects the ones
that you can see and it doesn't go
through it so now when we have that
checked and we select this look at this
the ones in the back are not checked
only the ones in front how awesome is
that
so I usually have ignore back-facing on
all the time I don't really know why
they have it is default off because you
always or excuse me you usually want to
have it on so now with those selected
let's go ahead and well I want to teach
you guys one more thing another thing
that you can do is grow or shrink your
selection whenever you make a selection
like let's say we select these two
vertices right here whenever we grow it
expands our selection outward so what's
a better view for this let me see here
we go
as you can see one I have to select now
then when I grow that it has all of
these selected then I want to press grow
again it has a huge range selected right
here so I can do the opposite of that by
shrinking shrinking shrinking shrinking
until nothing's left so that's another
way to alter your selection but for now
let's go ahead and do something with
this I'm gonna select these two right
here and make sure you have ignore
back-facing off press W to get your move
tool and go ahead and pull them out so
now we have this little thing popping
out of our sphere right there so now
let's go down here and select let's go
ahead and select something like that one
hold down control and you probably just
want to work with your select object
this one this one this one and this one
and this one now go ahead and press W
again and let's go Hogan and take those
and Y and move them back like right
there so let me see how it looks so now
we got something that looks like a nose
kind of in the mouth and again I'm just
teaching you how to use them I'm not
making a real good animation but uh I
guess the only thing we need now is eyes
this pretty much looks like a
jack-o'-lantern but hey whatever so now
in order to get I see what I'm gonna do
go back and get out of your modify panel
and go to the create panel and let's go
ahead and create two spheres Soner
standard primitives go ahead and create
a sphere alright there alyx good now
let's go ahead and move that up and if
we zoom out a little bit we can move it
over
up and over and just back a little bit
to set it in his head I've got a
position is just right don't mess it up
right there actually approach you move
it over a little bit he ain't no Cyclops
so then after that go ahead with this
selected hold down shift on your
keyboard and we can move it over to this
side right here and move it back just
like that
so what shift does is create a copy of
it which you should know from the other
tutorials so now you have this little
dude with the nose that we extruded
using the vertices and also the mouth
which we selected all the vertices and
push them back so that is your real
quick tutorial on how to make a
jack-o'-lantern
type again I'm not really didn't want to
really create anything this story I just
wanted to show you how you can use your
vertices and sub objects to select
different parts of the sphere or excuse
me sphere and move them in and out so
look at that as a professional looking
they should put that in a video game or
something
mr. jack-o'-lantern that is good I gotta
send that got to put this on my resume
but anyways thank you guys for watching
hopefully you know how to work a little
bit with editable Polys now in the next
tutorial we're gonna be learning how to
work with them in advanced kind of way
so again thank you guys for watching
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you next time