General AutoDesk 3DS Max MCQs

1. Shortcut for the Material Editor?

2. What does the G key do?

3. What reactor is used for breaking objects in fragments?

4. where you get the 'Boolean' command?

5. What is the DOF?

6. W, E, and R are shortcut key for which tools?

7. Keyboard shortcut for opening Material Editor dialog box?

8. Which command used to copy and arrange objects in path?

9. How can I move the camera on a path?

10. How do you move the default location of the pivot point of an object after it has been created?

11. Radiosity is based on:

12. Holding the wheel between the two mouse buttons down while moving the mouse will do what in the active viewport?

13. Purpose of most Max Scripts?

14. What keyboard short-cut maximises Viewport (toggle on/off)?

15. What does Ctrl + X do?

16. What does the ALT + W short cut key do?

17. What is the extension of Motion File that is used in a Biped?

18. How can we link the following camera to the line?

19. How do you invoke Expert Mode?

20. What axis of a texture map matches the Z axis of a model?

21. Why shouldn't you use .AVI, or .MOV file formats for long animation sequences?

22. What axis of a texture map matches the X axis of a model?

23. The Z axis is displayed using what color?

24. What does the track view dope sheet do?

25. The yellow lines and shapes that appear in the on screen transformation gizmos signify what?

26. In order to get an object to react to a Force such as Gravity or Push, which button on the Toolbar do you use?

27. What map is used to give shine to an object?

28. Which map creates Illusion of depth?

29. Which shortcut is for scaling

30. The Y axis is displayed using what color?

31. What is the function of back burner?

32. How can we attach an object to a path?

33. Why would you want to use Schematic View?

34. If we want to import an image in our view port what shortcut i this?

35. You edit a box to the point where it no longer resembles a box, but a human head. You turn the bounding box back on by pressing 'J,' and you realize that the Reference Coordinate System is off, as your bounding box is now covering your new head like a diamond. How do you reset the bounding box?

36. Why would you want to press '7'?

37. What is the default shortcut key for Toggle Snap on/off?

38. Which portion should be selected to embed Biped into physique modifier?

39. Can processes of Light Tracer and Radiosity be used together?

40. What does holding the left mouse button down inside the Rotate tool without actually being on an axis do?

41. What keyboard short-cut displays selected object as See-Through (toggle on/off)?

42. Where do you see nodes in Max?

43. What does Ctrl + Alt + LMB (Left Mouse Button) do on the timeline?

44. How would you speed up an entire animation?

45. How do you make a viewport active without the danger of accidently selecting or changing an object?

46. How can you scrub through your timeline without resetting the timeline size. You have a 4000 frame timeline and only 250 are visible.

47. Which is an object based deflector?

48. The combination of CTRL+Q is standing for what?

49. Which is not an exposure controller?

50. In rigid body dynamics, each body has six degrees of freedom to move: three translational degrees of freedom and three rotational degrees of freedom.

51. Which standard materials do not have diffuse level control?

52. Which operation does not remove animation from a NURBS object or sub-object?

53. Volume lights support negative multiplier values.

54. Which is not a float controller?

55. In which type of a soft body does the reactor deform the underlying mesh directly?

56. Which exposure control does the Mental Ray renderer support?

57. Which option in the physique modifier defines a link's area of influence on mesh vertices?

58. What is not true about a constraint solver?

59. Which information do the IGES log files not provide?

60. For which option does the image motion blur not work?

61. Which file format does Material Editor not support?

62. Which test will you perform on an object to know whether it is convex or concave?

63. In character studio, you can import both rotation and position type motion-capture files.

64. What is not true about skin utilities?

65. Curve approximation parameters are not animatable in NURBS Modeling.

66. When will you use motion flow rather than motion mixer?

67. Which map parameter is used to define custom seams and unfold UVs according to those custom seams?

68. Unlike other biped limbs, biped pelvis can be rotated upto 3 degree of freedom.

69. Which type of patch surface is available in grid form?

70. Render UVW template tool is used for rendering the image of unwrapped UVW's for use in paint applications.

71. The value of Falloff always remains greater than the value of hotspot for a standard spot light.

72. Which modifier has been used to deform the shape of the teapot in the given diagram?

73. Which option is used to turn off the selection for sub-objects whose normals are not visible in the viewport?

74. Which particle system does the icon in the given diagram represent?

75. Freeform is another name for Footsteps animation in character studio.

76. Which parameter is used to control the intensity of the light?

77. Which material option is turned on to render out a sphere as in the given image?

78. Which shadow is not supported by mental ray?

79. How is the sliding key different from the planted key in character studio?

80. Which is not a mapping type in the modifier uvw mapping?

81. Wire parameter is used to

82. Which is not a shape type for standard particles in a p array?

83. Matte objects do not receive shadows.

84. Changing the percentage of particles in the viewport display of parray affects the number of particles at rendertime.

85. A matte object is invisible, but blocks any geometry as well as background behind it during rendering.

86. Track view curve-editor is used for viewing and editing the animation keys.

87. Which parameter is increased to soften the shadow edges for a standard omni light?

88. Which modifier adds thickness to a surface?

89. Which is a type of atmospheric apparatus?

90. Changing the value of percentage under display parameters in the hair modifier effects the hair count at render time.

91. The glow around the teapot rendering in the shown figure is

92. Which is not a material type?

93. Volume fog is based on the camera's environment range values.

94. Which modifier helps to convert 2d shape into a 3d object?

95. The interface shown in the given diagram is a

96. Which is not a sub-object of editable mesh although it is a sub-object of editable poly?

97. Which mapping type is not available in UVW unwrap modifier?

98. Which ‘proxy in reactors’ is applied per rigid body rather than per object?

99. Trajectories are not displayed while you play an animation using the In Place mode.

100. Which behavior force delegates to move away from a target?

101. In the mental ray indirect illumination rollout, what will happen if the decay is set to 2?

102. What is the use of the camera correction modifier?

103. Which file saves only footstep data?

104. If more than one cameras are in the scene, the material editor uses the first camera listed in the track view hierarchy.

105. What kind of curve is the green curve in relation to the red curve?

106. When the simulator decreases dT, it shows 'dT decreased' on the Cloth Simulation dialog along with the message.

107. Which projection modifier has no parameters?

108. Ambient color mapping is not visible in ViewPorts or renderings unless the level of the ambient light is greater than the default value of the black.

109. Which option is applied to Havok 3 only?

110. The reactor plane object acts in only one direction.

111. Which option in the physique modifier defines a link's area of influence on mesh vertices?

112. Which rendering effect should be the last effect to be rendered when additional render effects are being applied to an image or animation?

113. Which option does the render iterative command ignore?

114. Which controller does the Walkthrough Assistant use for the camera rotation?

115. The MAXScript debugger lets you stop or continue the execution of the suspended code.

116. The Summary Info displays the statistics about the saved scene.

117. For which type of shadow generation is Optimizations rollout available?

118. What is the use of the shape visible to the renderer option in photometric light?

119. Which option will you select to display reflectance and transmittance information in the material editor?

120. Wire Parameters works only with parameters that can be animated.

121. How is the camera map modifier (object-space version)different from the camera map modifier (world-space version)?

122. Which option in NURBS surfaces dialog box is the option selected by default?

123. What you can not do with the Trajectories?

124. Which type of a deformable body is a three-dimensional closed triangular mesh?

125. What is true about mirroring motion?

126. In the camera tracker utility's batch track rollout, which error code means that the color variance delta threshold has been exceeded?

127. When does the bevel profile modifier fail?

128. Which kind of curve can trim surfaces in NURBS Modeling ?

129. What happens if the 'use mental ray map manager' option is set to off?

130. What is the function of the 'reveal location' in the explorer?

131. To which part of the body does the Inverse Kinematics not apply?

132. Which purpose is not served by the resource collector utility?

133. Which option in the particle view interface represents a depot?

134. The Renderable Spline modifier cannot be applied to NURBS curves.

135. You cannot animate haze value.

136. Which modifier has no parameters?

137. Which switch starts 3ds max in a minimized mode and never allows you to open the window for interactive usage?

138. When does a name appear in boldface and italics?

139. Which type of projection does the Camera Map per Pixel map use if we turn off ‘mask uses the camera projection’ feature?

140. The Fire effect does not cast any light or shadows in the scene.

141. What do blue biped IK keys represent as displayed in the track view and on the track bar?

142. Which asset tracking dialog icon indicates that you are not logged in to the provider?

143. With which type of objects does a Flex modifier work?

144. If a non-biped object is selected, the motion mixer is empty when it opens.

145. Which controller is automatically assigned when you add a target camera?

146. When is the 'not shared' option active?

147. You need at least one camera in your scene to use the Panorama Exporter.

148. Which option in the file properties box displays the scene information available after the scene has been saved?

149. When you switch over from a target camera to a free camera, no animation applied to the camera's target is lost.

150. Global shadow parameters cannot be exported while exporting a 3ds file.

151. Which apparatus is used to create atmospheric effects?

152. What is not true about the UVW remove utility?

153. Which information is not imported when you import a 3DS file?

154. Which view does not render fog effects?

155. To which kind of objects can you apply a displacement map (standard material)?

156. Which type of object cannot be used with the surface constraint?

157. Which rendering features does the mental ray renderer support?

158. Which data type for controlling colors works with the RGB and HSV color values?

159. Which option will you choose to edit the region both in the rendered frame window and in the active viewport?

160. Which type of modifier is not available with the edit normals modifier?

161. Contour shading does not work with distributed bucket rendering for the mental ray renderer.

162. Which objects are not supported by the Channel Info utility?

163. What is not true about the direction in time configuration dialog box?

164. What purpose does the relative option serve while loading the animation XML file?