Modeling a Character in 3DS Max, 2nd Edition

Right-click on the object and select Scale from the pop-up menu.

Left-click to activate the Uniform Scale (or just U Scale) trans

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form icon and scale Body Guide down by about 46% or until it’s six

major lines (six feet) tall. Hit Zoom Extents Selected again and you

should have something like this:

As I said earlier, the reason for doing an overall body reference is

for relative scale and to build the mesh. For important parts such as

the head, it’s necessary to create an additional reference object for

it since it normally has more relative detail and you need to zoom in

to work on it. This holds true for any part of your character you feel

is an important ...