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Tip: Enlarge your material view
If you double-click on the material you want a better view
of, Max will open a new little preview window. This new
window is adjustable. Just grab either bottom corner and
drag it up or down in size. The larger you drag this
window, however, the longer it will take to refresh your
material updates. Likewise, you can right-click a shader
and adjust your viewing size.
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Note:
Throughout your experience with modeling you may hear
people refer to materials as shaders. Even 3ds Max does
this. A material in 3ds Max uses a shader to make up part
of its effect. A shader is a collection of instructions to tell
the hardware how you ...