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Duplicating objects with Clone

Duplicating objects with Clone - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Duplicating objects with Clone

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- [Instructor] To copy objects in Max, you'll use the clone command that comes in handy in situations where you need more than one of something such as here. I've got this outdoor chair and it's got two arms. We've got chair frame arm right and chair frame arm left. I'll go ahead and demonstrate the process. First, I'll delete the chair frame arm left, press Delete on the keyboard, and I want to make a copy of chair frame arm right. The command for that is in the edit menu, hit clone. You'll see the tool tip listed on the right here is Ctrl + V. In most programs, Ctrl + V is paste, but in 3ds Max Ctrl + V is actually copy and paste in a single operation. I'll go ahead and click on the menu item to execute that command. And I get a pop-up dialogue, clone options, and we have three different possibilities here. Copy instance and reference, a copy is an independent copy that has no relationship to the original. An instance is like having one object in two places at once. Both of those…

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