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410 Chapter 20: Managing Scenes and Projects
However,3dsMaxdetectsacircularexternal
reference and won’t allow this, unless both the
Building A scene and the Sky Bridge scene flag
their external reference as an Overlay.
Wa rning: If you turn off the Overlay flag for an existing
XRef scene, you c an cause circular external references to
occur, that aren’t detected until you or another user tries
to open one of the scenes in the projec t.
Procedures
To add an XRef scene:
1.
Choose File > XRef Scene.
2. Click the Add button. An Open File dialog
appearsthatletsyoulocatetheMAXfileyou
wish to reference. A thumbnail display is
provided to help you identify your file.
3. Click Open to bring the XRef scene into the
cur rent scene.
4. The path and file name of the selected file
appearsintheXRefFileswindow.
You can add as many files as you like; each one
appearsintheXRefFileswindow.
5. Make additional choices in the XRef Scenes
dialog if you wa nt.
You can affect the display of the XRef scene,
making it visible or not, or making objects
in the referenced scene appear as bounding
boxes. You can ignore the file’s lights, cameras,
shapes, helpers, or animation. You can control
when the file updates, either automatically or
on demand. You can have the file enabled or
disabled, or you can merge it, severing the XRef
relationship and inserting the scene into your
current file. You can bind the scene to a Parent
object to reposition or animate the XRef scene.
To sca le, rotate, or reposition an XR ef scene:
1.
Create an object in your current scene to be the
parent object.
2. Choose the XRef scene from the XRef File
window.
3. Click Bind (in the Parent group), and then
selecttheparentobjectbyclickingitinthe
view por t.
4. Transform the parent object. The XRef scene
will follow.