3ds max Spline Modeling Editing Bezier splines Right click on that and enable the axis constraints toolbar and here it is and this tells us what our current access constraints are. We're currently constrained to Y, so I can choose X or Y over here and now finally I can drag that Bezier handle in any direction in the space here of the front view port. Right so axis constraints are kind of important, so I'll actually just park those up there. I've got my UI locked so I'll go to customize and unlock it and drag and drop that up into the main toolbar and then re-enable lock UI layout. This is very helpful, and there are keyboard shortcuts for that if you want to use them. F5 is X, F6 is Y, F7 is Z and F8 will switch between the three axes of XY, YZ and ZX. So each time you press F8 you'll cycle between those three. Alright so finally I just want to move this last point so that it's positioned where I want it to be near the monitor and then I can re-enable the transform gizmo because we'll need that later. So Ctrl + Shift + X to re-enable it and then finally we can exit out of sub-object vertex by just clicking at the top level of editable spline and we've made some simple adjustments, and now we've got a nice curve there. Again there are a lot of tools in editable spline and we just barely scratched the surface.
3ds max Spline Modeling Editing Bezier splines Alright so we go into our front view over here and maybe play around with that too, give that some believable shape. Now you might run into an issue here where you're trying to extend a handle, let's say you're trying to drag this handle and you want to move it in the X and Y space of this front view port. But when you click on that you're only able to move it in Y and not in X and that's because of the transform gizmo kind of getting in the way here. So we can hide that move tool gizmo if we want and there's a keyboard shortcut for that which is Ctrl + Shift + X and that's kind of a secret. There is another command over here, show transform gizmo but that's a completely different command and that's actually not what we want. You can see that it's still enabled. So I'm pointing this out to you so that you'll know you don't want to use this, you need to use the Ctrl + Shift + X keyboard shortcut and that actually changes a preference in the customize preference menu. Okay so now we can see that we still have our axis tripod, and we can see that the Y axis is highlighted meaning that we can only move that tangent handle in Y. Now the next part of this is enabling the axis constraints toolbar so that we can change the axis. So go to any toolbar or panel, and find the textured bar at the top or side of it. 3ds max Spline Modeling Editing Bezier splines
