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Choosing viewport shading modes

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Choosing viewport shading modes

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- [Instructor] To work effectively in Max, it's essential that you get control over the viewport display, and the most fundamental property of the viewport display is whether it is in a shaded mode, or a wireframe mode. Perspective views are shaded by default, and all the orthographic 2D views are in a wireframe mode. We can change that up either through the menus, or with a keyboard shortcut. Let's talk about the viewport menus. The menu at the upper left of each viewport is broken up into four menu items. On the far left is a plus sign that's known as the general menu. The viewport label that displays the name of that view is called the point of view or POV menu. We saw that previously to access the undo buffer for view ports. The third menu displays the current shading mode, and it's called the shading menu. We'll be looking at this in more detail when we get into lighting and materials. On the far right is the, so-called purview preference menu, and this is where we can control…

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