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Essential 3ds max 2008
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Essential 3ds max 2008

by Sean McBride
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
445 pages
15h 43m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Gaining Back Definition That You Have Lost
You may have noticed that when you TurboSmooth an object
you lose a massive amount of definition, especially in areas
where you have 90-degree angles between polygons. This is
because TurboSmooth is literally smoothing out the surface of
your model. If you took some clay that was molded into a cube
shape and started smoothing it out around the edges, what
would you end up with? A sphere! Here’s an example of that
in Max:
See how the cube turns into a sphere shape? Well, that’s great
and wonderful, but what if we don’t want a sphere shape?
What if we just wanted a cube that had slightly rounded-off
corners? This ...
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ISBN: 9781598220506