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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">Thinking 

                        Outside the Box: </font><font color="#904C10" size="4"><br>
                        <font size="3">3DS Tutorial #1: CyberGuy</font></font></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 13&nbsp; <br>
                      February 23, 2000&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><loonystart></font></p>
                            
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Press 
                Attach and now all the shapes are merged into one.</font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy30.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy30.jpg" width="202" height="203" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy30.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now for 
                some trickery.  Change your viewport to wireframe mode, go to 
                the Modify panel, click on Sub-Object/Spline.  Select all the 
                splines in the front view.</font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy31.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy31.jpg" width="248" height="176" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy31.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shift 
                drag the splines over to the right and click on Detach.  Click 
                OK at the prompt.  Don’t worry about the name unless you want 
                to name it something.  </font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy32.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy32.jpg" width="243" height="198" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy32.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As you’ve 
                noticed by now I don’t normally name everything I make since I 
                do a lot of attaching, merging and consolidating of shapes and 
                objects.  If things get tricky and hard to follow then I resort 
                to naming conventions for the shapes and objects.  Otherwise I 
                save the naming for the end as a finishing move for the mesh parts. 
                </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Select 
                the new object and go up to Tools/Mirror.  </font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy33.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy33.jpg" width="174" height="246" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy33.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Make sure 
                the Mirror dialog box has the X axis and No Clone areas checked 
                and hit OK.</font></p>
              <table border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#D7B582" width="98" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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                  <td height="43"> 
                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy34.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy34.jpg" width="214" height="223" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy34.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Next turn 
                the viewport back to Smooth + Highlights and slide the mirrored 
                shape over to the right position.</font></p>
              <table border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#D7B582" width="98" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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                  <td height="43"> 
                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy35.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy35.jpg" width="229" height="194" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy35.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Attach 
                the mirrored shape to the first shape and close the open lines 
                by using Modify/Sub-Object/Vertex/Connect…</font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy36.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy36.jpg" width="405" height="293" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy36.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Once you 
                connect the hips shape go ahead and detach that spline and rename 
                it to hips.  While we’re at it let’s go ahead and detach the head 
                and side splines naming them ‘head’, ‘chest’, ‘calf’, and ‘foot 
                respectively.  We’ll do the other body parts as well, but for 
                now we’ll just do these.</font></p>
              <table border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#D7B582" width="98" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy37.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy37.jpg" width="199" height="177" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy37.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
                      to enlarge</a></ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now we 
                can start clearing up the workspace a little bit as we turn the 
                shapes into meshes.  Select the shape we’ve been working on, go 
                over to the Display tab and click on Hide Unselected.</font></p>
              <table border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#D7B582" width="98" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy38.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy38.jpg" width="234" height="157" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy38.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self">Click 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hit P 
                and Zoom Extents, centering the scene in the perspective window.  
                Rotate the view so you’re looking obliquely at the shape and lose 
                the grid if it pops up.  Go to the Modify tab and click on the 
                Extrude modifier.  Enter a value of 6 for the extrusion and keep 
                the segments to 1.</font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy39.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy39.jpg" width="271" height="266" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Next add 
                an Edit Mesh modifier, go to Sub-Object/Face and with the Element 
                icon selected, drag select the left arm structure.  Go down near 
                the bottom of the menu and click on Detach.  Call the new object 
                ‘arm’.</font></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.13/totb/images/cyberguy40.jpg&amp;back=/content/2.13/totb/index6.php&amp;name=Thinking Outside the Box" target="_self"><img src="images/thumbs/cyberguy40.jpg" width="369" height="247" border="1" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Turn the 
                Sub-Object button off, go to the Display panel, uncheck the Edges 
                Only box and hit Hide Selected to isolate the arm.  </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hide Unselected 
                and Hide Selected are both useful and I can’t really say I use 
                one more than the other.  Although since I have alt-H bound to 
                Hide Selected I probably use it slightly more than the other.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before 
                we start working on the arm, let’s make it easier to see the changes 
                we make.  Go to your viewport name (Perspective) and right-click 
                to change the view to Other: Facets.  Check the Edged Faces as 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Once I 
                begin my mesh with either a primitive or extrusion, my next most 
                crucial technique is Edge manipulation.  I use edge divide and 
                edge turn literally hundreds of times during the course of creating 
                and optimizing a model.  The ease with which Max allows you to 
                manipulate edges is a major reason why I use it as my modeling 
                tool.  </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So, let’s 
                begin the arm by starting with the shoulder.  With the arm selected 
                go to the modify panel and go to Sub-Object/Edge and activate 
                Divide near the bottom.  Once you do divide these edges here, 
                here and here…</font></p>
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