With your Mobile scene loaded, open the Schematic View by choosing Graph Editors ??”
New Schematic View or by clicking the Schematic View (Open) icon in the main
toolbar, as shown in Figure 3.48.
2. Unlink the Star object from the Mobile and relink it to the Circle object. To do this,
click the Connect button and then select the Star01 node and drag it to the Circle01
node, as shown in Figure 3.49.
3. When you release the mouse button, notice that the Star01 node is linked under the
Circle01 node, as shown in Figure 3.50. The Star has been automatically unlinked
from its old parent.
Figure 3.48
The Schematic View
for the Mobile scene
Figure 3.47
Accessing a saved
Schematic View
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You can see how easy it is to restructure your scene hierarchies using the Schematic
View. All the controls for viewing and arranging nodes might be a bit much for one window.
You probably won??™t need half those icons, but knowing how to use the Schematic
View is important. It is an important tool in organizing and setting up your scenes for
animation. You will continue to use the Schematic View throughout this book.
Scene Explorer
New to 3ds Max 2008 is the Scene Explorer dialog (Figure 3.
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