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Dariush Derakhshani, Randi Lorene Munn

"Introducing 3ds Max 2008"

Because objects can have different states of being, different
conventions are used to indicate an object??™s current state in the scene, with the more
important states listed here:
Red Border The object is animated.
White Fill The object is currently selected in the Schematic View window.
White Border The object is currently selected in a viewport.
Up Arrow Used to simplify a view. Pressing the Up arrow collapses each node and its
dependent child nodes up to the next highest parent, putting everything into one node
Menu Bar
Zoom Selected Viewport Object
Select Object Text Entry Prompt Area Navigation Tools
Display
Floater
Window
Bookmark
Name Field
Preferences
Collapse Selected
Expand Selected
Move Children
Free Selected
Free All
Arrange Selected
Arrange Children
Always Arrange
Reference Mode
Hierarchy Mode
Delete Objects
Unlink Selected
Connect
Select
Display
Floater
Nodes
managing scene objects ?–  101
Figure 3.46
The Mobile scene
broken down in the
Schematic View
immediately tells
you how the objects
are organized.
for simpler display. This is useful for large characters and long hierarchy chains because
you don??™t have to see all the child nodes in a large scene.


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