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3D Studio Max Lesson 1.2: Tool Tabs Overview

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Modifiers Tab

Modifiers Tab

Modifiers Tab

The Modifiers tab contains many of the commonly-used modifiers that are used to--you guessed it--modify an object. These can range from space warps such as the previous lesson to modifiers that smooth the surface of a polygon, or round its corners, or cause their materials to be mapped on in a different way--or many others.

The modifiers on the Modifiers tab are: Bend, Taper, Skew, Twist, Stretch, Noise, Wave, Melt, Spherify, Ripple, FFD Box, FFD Cylinder, XForm, Flex, Morpher, Skin, Displace, Optimize, Smooth, Cap Holes, Linked XForm, Push, Vertex Paint, MeshSmooth, Volume Select, Mesh Select, Edit Mesh, Edit Patch, Edit Spline, Spline Select, UVW Map, Unwrap UVW, and Material ID.

When there are no objects in a scene to be modified, the buttons are greyed out, as above.

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