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Part I ✦ Learning the Max Interface

The Modifiers menu has two new categories in 3ds max 6—Conversion and Cameras. You’ll

also find a handful of new modifiers including the Select by Channel, UVW Mapping Add,

UVW Mapping Clear, Shell, and Camera Correction.

Selecting a modifier from the Modifiers menu automatically opens the Modify panel where

you can adjust the Parameters for the applied modifier. The modifiers in the Modifiers menu

are grouped into several categories listed in Table 1-2.

Modifiers can be used to help you in many areas such as modeling and animation, so cover-

age of them is found throughout the entire book, but a general discussion of modifiers and

how to use them is presented in Chapter 11, “Introducing Modifiers for Basic Object

Deformation.”

Table 1-2: Modifiers Menu Items

Menu Submenu Items

Selection Modifiers Mesh Select, Poly Select, Patch Select, Spline Select, Volume Select, FFD

Select, Select by Channel

Patch/Spline Editing Edit Patch, Edit Spline, Cross Section, Surface, Delete Patch, Delete Spline,

Lathe, Normalize Spline, Fillet/Chamfer, Trim/Extend

Mesh Editing Cap Holes, Delete Mesh, Edit Mesh, Edit Normals, Extrude, Face Extrude,

MultiRes, Normal Modifier, Optimize, Smooth, STL Check, Symmetry,

Tessellate, Vertex Paint, Vertex Weld

Conversion Turn to Mesh, Turn to Patch, Turn to Poly

Animation Modifiers Skin, Morpher, Flex, Melt, Linked XForm, PatchDeform, PatchDeform (WSM),

PathDeform, PathDeform (WSM), SurfDeform, SurfDeform (WSM), SplineIk

Control

UV Coordinates UVW Map, UVW Mapping Add, UVW Mapping Clear, UVW XForm, MapScaler

(WSM), Unwrap UVW, Camera Map (WSM), Camera Map

Cache Tools Point Cache, Point Cache (WSM)

Subdivision Surfaces MeshSmooth, HSDS Modifier

Free Form Deformers FFD 2x2x2, FFD 3x3x3, FFD 4x4x4, FFD Box, FFD Cylinder

Parametric Deformers Bend, Taper, Twist, Noise, Stretch, Squeeze, Push, Relax, Ripple, Wave, Skew,

Slice, Shell, Spherify, Affect Region, Lattice, Mirror, Displace, XForm, Preserve

Surface Material, Material By Element, Disp Approx, Displace Mesh (WSM)

NURBS Editing Surface Select, Surf Deform, Disp Approx

Radiosity Modifiers Subdivide (WSM), Subdivide

Cameras Camera Correction

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