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Connecting the remaining corners are a
number of diagonals (page 3–928),whichserve
to fully triangulate the polygons. The new Turn
function lets you m anipulate each of these with
asingleclick.
7. Go to the Edge sub-object level, and then, on
the Edit Edges rollout, click Tur n.
All diagonals, including those created from the
Cut operations, appear as dashed lines.
8. Click a diagonal to turn it, and then click it
againtoreturnittoitsoriginalstatus.
In Turn mode, click a diagonal (dashed line) once to turn it.
Each diagonal has only two different available
positions, given no changes in any other
diagonals’ or edges’ positions.
Compare this with the Edit Triangulation tool,
with which you must click two vertices to
change a diagonal’s position.
This simple demonstration shows how, when
manually subdividing a polygon mesh for
modeling and animation pur p oses, you can
save a good dea l of time by using the Cut and
Turn tools i n 3 ds Max.
To create a sha pe f r om one or mor e edges :
1.
Selecttheedgesyouwanttomakeintoshapes.
2. On the Edit Edges rollout, click Create Shape
From Selection.
3. Make changes, as needed, on the Create Shape
dialog that appears.
• Enter a cur ve name or keep the default.
• Choose Smooth or Linear as the shape type.
4. Click OK.
The resulting shape consists of one or more
splines whose vertices are coincident with the
vertices in the selected edges. The Smooth
option results in ver tices using smooth values,
while the Linear option results in linear splines
with corner vertices.
If the selected e dges are not continuous, or if
they branch, the resulting shape will consist
of more than one spline. When the Create
Shape function runs into a branching ’Y’ in
the edges, it m a kes an arbitrary decision as to
which edge produces which spline. If you need
to control this, select only those edges that w ill
result in a single spline, and p er form a Create
Shape operation repeatedly to make the correct
number of shapes. Finally, use Attach (page
1–308) in the Editable Spline to combine the
shapes into one.