3D Studio Max Lesson 1.4: Animation Tools Overview

Zoom/Display Tools

• Zoom: Allows you to zoom in and out on the selected view.
• Zoom All: Allows you to zoom in and out on all viewports at once.
• Zoom Extents/Zoom Extents Selected: When in Zoom Extents (grey), clicking this causes the scene in the active viewport to zoom out to automatically fit all items in the scene within the active view. When in Zoom Extents Selected (white), clicking this causes the scene in the active viewport to zoom to show all of a selected object(s).
• Zoom Extents All/Zoom Extents Selected All: Zoom Extents All zooms all viewports to show every object in the scene, while Zoom Extents Selected All zooms all viewports to show all of a selected object in the scene.

• Animation Tools
• Animation Timeline
• Selection Options, Absolute Transformations, Shortcut and Degradation Overrides
• Snap Options/Tools
• Animation Key Frames and Playback
• Zoom/Display Tools
• View Control Tools