Autodesk 495B1-05A111-1301 - 3ds Max Design 2010, User Manual

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the Factory Default button—see User Settings on page 555. You can change
the following parameters once a Creation tool is selected:
■ Garbage mask Name
■
Opacity (animatable)
■ Intensity (animatable)
■ Smoothing
■ Invert (animatable)
■ Compositing Operator—see Compositing Operators on page 563.
■ Correlation. Specify how input mattes are correlated. This can be used to
improve the quality of the composite in special cases. For example, if you
composite two mattes that share a good portion of their outline, you should
indicate if they are Adjacent or Superposed. By default, the correlation
mode is None, assuming that normally, the input mattes are not correlated.
■ Mask Color and Auto Mask Color toggle
■ Initial In/Out Edge distance
■ Edge Color
To create a shape using the Freeform tool:
1 Select the Freeform tool button or press D .
2 Set initial mask parameters if necessary.
3 Click and drag on the image in the Player to place the first control point
and adjust the tangent (if not in Auto Tangent), or (if in Auto Tangent)
to move the point.
4 Move the cursor to the location where you want the next control point
to be and click.
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