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Additional Keyboard Commands........................... 717
Toggling Dialogs...................................................... 718
Starting 3ds Max from the Command Line............ 719
Menu B ar............................................................... 720
Menu Bar ................................................................. 720
File Menu................................................................. 721
Edit Menu ....... ......................................................... 721
Tools Menu ...................................... ........................ 722
Group Menu ............................................................ 722
Views Menu......................................................... .... 722
Create Menu ............................................................ 723
Modifiers Menu....................................................... 726
Character Menu................................................ ....... 729
Reactor Menu .......................................................... 729
Animation Menu ..................................................... 729
Graph Editors Menu.... ............................................ 730
Rendering Menu...................................................... 731
Customize Menu ..................................................... 731
MAXScript Menu................................ .................... 732
Help Menu............. ........................................... ....... 732
Toolbars................................................................. 732
3ds Max Toolbars ............................................. ....... 732
Main Toolbar ............... ............................................ 733
Axis Constraints Toolbar ............. ........................... 735
Layers Toolbar ......................................................... 735
reactor Toolbar ................ ........................................ 736
Extras Toolbar ......................................................... 736
Render Shortcuts Toolbar ....................................... 736
Snaps Toolbar .......................................................... 737
Brush Presets Toolbar.............................................. 737
Brush Preset Manager ............................................. 739
Right-Click Menu for Scripted Toolbar Buttons..... 741
Quad Menu............................................................ 741
Quad Menu.............................................................. 741
Additional Quad Menus.................. ........................ 744
Animation Quad Menu........................................... 745
Status Bar Controls ............................................... 746
Status Bar Controls.................................................. 746
Prompt Line ................................. ........................... 746
MAXScript Mini Listener ....................................... 746
Status Line .......................................... .................... 748
Time Slider .............................................................. 748
Track Bar ................................................................. 750
Selection Lock Toggle ............................................. 754
Coordinate Display ............... .................................. 755
Grid Setting Display ..................................... .......... 757
Time Tag .................................................................. 757
Add Time Tag Dialog .............................................. 757
Edit Time Tag Dialog .............................................. 758
Animation and Time Controls.............................. 759
Animation and Time Controls................................ 759
Auto Key Animation Mode ................................. ... 760
Set Key Animation Mode ........................................ 761
Default In/Out Tangents For New Keys ............ ...... 764
Go To Start .............................................................. 765
Previous Frame/Key ....... ........................................ 766
Play/Stop ................................................................. 766
Next Frame/Key ...................................................... 767
Go To End ..................................................... .......... 767
Current Frame (Go To Frame) ............................... 767
Key Mode ................................................................ 767
Time Configuration ................................................ 768
V iewports and V iewport Controls ...................... 772
Viewports ................................................................ 772
Viewport Right-Click Menu ................................... 774
V iewport Controls ................................................ 778
Viewport Controls................................................... 778
Controls Available in All V iewpor ts .................... 780
Zoom Extents All, Zoom Extents All Selected ....... 780
Maximize Viewport Toggle .................................... 780
Walkthr ough Controls for Perspective and
Camera V iewpor ts ............................................. 780
Pan/Truck and Walkthrough Flyout ....................... 780
Walk Through Button ............................................ 781
Perspective and Orthographic V iewport
Controls .............................................................. 781
Perspective and Orthographic Viewport
Controls ................................................................ 781
Zoom Viewport ...................................................... 782
Zoom All ................................................................. 782
Zoom Extents / Zoom Extents Selected.................. 783
Field of View Flyout .......................................... ...... 784
Field-of-View Button .............................................. 784
Zoom Region .......................................................... 785
Pan View ......... ........................................... ............. 786
Arc Rotate Flyout... .................................................. 786
ArcRotate,ArcRotateSelected,ArcRotate
Sub-Object ........................................................... 787
Camera V iewpor t Controls .................................. 788
Camera Viewport Controls........................... .......... 788
Dolly Camera, Target, or Both ............................... 788
Perspective .............................................................. 789
Roll Camera ............................................................ 790
Tr uck Camera ......................................................... 791
Orbit/Pan Camera .................................................. 791
Light V iewport Controls....................................... 792
Light Viewport Controls ......................................... 792
Dolly Light, Target, or Both .................................... 793