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S naps Toolba r
Right-click unused area of any toolbar. > Snaps
The Snaps toolbar provides access to the most
common Snaps settings.
TotoggledisplayoftheSnapstoolbar,right-click
an empty area of the main toolbar, such as the
section under the Reference Coordinate System
drop-down, and choose Snaps. For details on the
button functions, see Standard Snaps (page 2–43)
and Snap O ptions (page 2–46).
Animation Layers Toolbar
Right-click unused area of any toolbar. > Animation
Layers
The animation layers
toolbar provides quick access to commands
related to the Layer controller, such as enabling,
adding, and collapsing layers. Some of these
commands are also accessible through the
Laye r Controlle r dialog (page 2–325).Formore
information, see Animation Layers (page 2–326).
B r ush P resets Tool bar
Right-click unused area of any toolbar. > Brush Presets
The Brush Presets toolbar gives you quick access
to up to 50 different br u sh settings for use with the
following paint-oriented tools:
• Paint Deformation (page 1–1064) (Edit/Editable
Poly)
• Paint Soft Selection (page 1–966) (Edit/Editable
Poly)
• VertexPaint modifier (page 1–936)
• Skin modifier (page 1–791)
Youcanalsousethetoolbartocreatenewpresets
and to open the Brush Preset Manager (page
3–692), which lets you e dit presets, and save and
load groups of presets. The current group of
presets is saved when you quit 3ds Max and is
restored the next time you start the program.
Note: Only one set of presets is available at a time.
The Br ush Presets feature stores context-specific
features,suchastheVertexPaintcolor,butagiven
preset has the same size (or size range) in every
context. Other context-independent settings are
Strength and Mirror options (set via the Painter
Options dialog (page 1–960).
Procedure
To use the B rush Pr esets toolbar :
1.
A ccess any of the brush tools listed above.
The tool starts with a default brush.
2. Right-click an empty area on a toolbar, such as
the main toolbar below the Named Selection
Sets drop-down list, and choose Brush Presets.