Datasheet

48
|
CHAPTER 1 GettinG to Know 3ds Max desiGn 2010
2. Place the cursor anywhere outside the circle. Then slowly click and drag in an up-and-
down motion. Now the view rotates around the circle as if you were tilting your head
from side to side.
You may have noticed that the cursor changes, depending on whether you’re inside or out-
side the circle. This gives you further cues regarding the way the Orbit Selected tool affects
your view.
You’ve been introduced to nearly all of the Viewport tools. However, there’s one more feature
of the Orbit Selected tool that you’ll want to know about before you continue. The Orbit Selected
tool uses the center of the viewport as the center about which it rotates when no object is
selected. But the Orbit Selected tool works in a slightly different way when objects are selected.
Try the following exercise to see how this variation works:
1. Choose Views  Restore Active Perspective View to restore the view you saved earlier.
2. Click the Select Object tool from the main toolbar.
3. Click the chair on the left side in the back row, as shown in Figure 1.50.
4. Click the Orbit Selected tool again.
5. Slowly click and drag the cursor within the circle. Notice how the view appears to be
fixed at the center of the selected chair.
6. Slowly click and drag the cursor in a vertical motion outside the circle. The view appears
to rotate around the selected chair.
7. Return to the saved view by choosing Views  Restore Active Perspective View.
If you click and hold the Orbit Selected tool, you’ll see two other Orbit tools in the Orbit flyout.
The tool at the top, called simply the Orbit tool, rotates the view about the view center, regardless
of whether an object is selected. You’ve already seen how the second tool, the Orbit Selected tool,
works. The tool at the bottom of the Orbit flyout is the Orbit SubObject tool. This tool rotates a view
about a sub-object-level selection. You’ll learn about sub-object-level editing in Chapter 4.
Figure 1.50
Selecting a chair in
the back row
02344c01.indd 48 7/24/09 1:21:26 PM