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Using the exercise files

Using the exercise files - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using the exercise files

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- [Instructor] If you have access to the Exercise Files I provided with this course, go ahead and download those and extract them to a convenient location, such as on your desktop. And if you don't have access to the Exercise Files, you can still follow the exercises using your own assets, and even if you aren't following along with the exercises, maybe if you're on a mobile device or don't have 3ds Max installed, you can still learn by observation and note-taking. The Exercise Files folder is a 3ds Max project folder. It stores various different types of assets in designated folders, such as scenes. In the scenes folder, we'll see a lot of .max files. These hold the models, materials, lighting, and animation for the various 3D scenes. Generally, there's one 3ds Max scene for each exercise. Sometimes there will be no scene file for that movie because we're starting from a blank slate in Max, and sometimes there's a finished example illustrating what that scene would look like at the…

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