I have been going through the tutorial on 3ds max 9.0 and have come to a confusing lesson.

If you start the tutorial from Help/Tutorials… then navigate to Modeling a Low Poly Character/Modeling a Low Poly Head/Creating the Basic Head Divisions…

If you go down to “Add a symmetry modifier,” you get to the part that says, ”2. In the Perspective viewport, select all faces on the inner side of Low-Poly Head.” Can anyone give me a little more insight?  What faces are they referring to?  What do I do to select the faces they mention in the perspective viewport?

Also, a little further down you come to where it says, ”5. On the Parameters rollout, choose the Z axis. Any further changes will be mirrored along this axis.” Is the Z axis the correct setting?

Thanks,
Allen Hoessli

Here are my assignment notes for that tutorial.
It may help.

Tim Wilbers [FA]

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Visual Arts
University of Dayton
http://www.udayton.edu/
3ds Max: 7.5, 8, 9, 2008, 2009, 2010

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Maybe I’m missing this...what is the tutorial telling me to select exactly?  I think I understand what your lesson file says...I’m just having trouble understanding what to select.

According to this tutorial, I select “all the faces” on the “inside” or something like that and press delete.  The image shown in the tutorial shows half of the face selected.

Thanks,
Allen Hoessli

Sorry, wrong tutorial.
I edited the above post to have the correct one for the head.

Tim Wilbers [FA]

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Visual Arts
University of Dayton
http://www.udayton.edu/
3ds Max: 7.5, 8, 9, 2008, 2009, 2010

AHA!  That makes more sense.  Some of these tutorials are so vague.  There was a few times that I had to experiment before I understood what it was getting at.  This particular problems has had me stumped for a couple of days now.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks,
Allen Hoessli