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Chapter 1 ✦ Finding Your Way — Exploring the Max Interface

The only change in the main toolbar was to move the Keyboard Shortcut Override Toggle

button to the Extras floating toolbar and to add the Layer Manager button. The Selection

Filter drop-down list and the Select and Manipulate buttons changed position and the Quick

Render (Draft) button was dropped. Everything else is unchanged. Thanks, Discreet.

Viewing the default floating toolbars

If you select the Customize ➪ Show UI ➪ Show Floating Toolbars menu command, three more

toolbars appear. These are floating toolbars. You can also make them appear by selecting

them from the toolbar right-click pop-up menu. The floating toolbars are Axis Constraints,

Layers, and Extras and Reactor, but the Reactor toolbar is docked to the left side of the inter-

face by default. Figure 1-4 shows the Axis Constraints and Extras toolbars.

The Extras and reactor toolbars are new to 3ds max 6.

Figure 1-4: The Axis Constraints and Extras toolbars are

available as floating toolbars.

The Axis Constraints toolbar includes buttons for restricting transformations to the X (F5), Y

(F6), or Z (F7) axes or to restrict transformations to a single plane: XY, YZ, or ZX (F8 to cycle).

The Extras toolbar includes the Keyboard Shortcut Override Toggle, AutoGrid, and a flyout

button for the Array, Snapshot, and Spacing Tool (Shift+I) dialog boxes. It also includes the

Rendering Presets drop-down list.

The Layers toolbar includes several buttons for creating, enabling, locking, and selecting lay-

ers. You can also set the properties for each layer. The reactor toolbar includes buttons for

accessing all the reactor functions.

Layers are discussed in Chapter 6, “Selecting Objects and Setting Object Properties,” and

reactor is covered in Chapter 40, “Animating with reactor.”

Cross-

Reference

Restrict to X

Restrict to Y

Restrict to Z

Restrict to XY, YZ, XZ Plane

Keyboard Shortcut Override Toggle

AutoGrid

Array, Snapshot, Spacing Tool

Render Presets drop-down list

New

Feature

New

Feature

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