Basic Max - Lesson 1

Hardware
CPU > 2Ghz - best if multiprocessing
RAM > 1GB
Video Card 128x960
HDD > 50% virtual memory

Some wording:
Vertex - вершинки
Edge - ребро
Face - грань

Short cuts:
Shift + Q - Rendering
Alt + W - make scene full screen

To Clone, select object, then press Shift and move the object. You can either create a:
Copy - independant object
Instance - will follow changes of the original object
Reference -  only the original can be changed
To make the cloned object a stand alone, have to go to modifications and make unique.






To move, rotate, scale object precisely, right click on the transform button (scale, rotate):





To change Pivot of an object, Select the Hierarchy tab and then change Pivot click affect pivot only, similarly to precision setup, can put the pivot by typing in numbers.