Command Panel - create panel, display panel, hierarchy panel, motion panel, utilities panel

Comprises six user-interface panels: create panel, modify panel, hierarchy panel, motion panel, display panel, and utilities panel

create panel

provides the controls for creating objects. This is the first step in building a new scene in 3ds Max.

display panel

provides access to tools that control the display of objects in the scene.

hierarchy panel

provides access to tools to adjust the hierarchical linkage between objects.

motion panel

provides an alternative to Track View for assigning animation controllers.

utilities panel

gives you access to a variety of useful tools (utilities such as, MaxScript and Reset Xform are here)

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Error Message: You Must Have Valid Objects Selected

When we get this error message, make sure "view" is selected in the render settings window. Also, make sure it is VRay and "Bucket" for type is selected. Forum Post: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/you-must-have-a-valid-object-selected/td-p/6242993

3DS Max Fundamentals - Open/Closing

We open objects when we want to make edits We close the group when we go back to staying in a group of objects

Fundamentals: Select and non-uniform scale

Select and non-uniform scale this icon selected, we can change location of edges when selecting edges of object Ex: We select both edge loops before the Select and non-uniform scale Before After Both edge loops selected and with select and non-uniform selected, we scale (r) to spread them apart equally

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