Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 2892

After importing the contour data, selecting the objects and clicking the Terrain button, 3ds Max moves all the selected objects out of the scene and into the terrain object. Other splines in the selection are treated in the same way as by the Move copy method. You can only use these splines as operands of the terrain object. This is appropriate if you create splines in order to create a terrain object and have no further use for them. Test The basic function of a test in Particle Flow is to determine whether particles satisfy one or more conditions, and if so, make them available for sending to another event. When a particle passes a test, it is said to "test True." To send eligible particles to another event, you must wire on page 8170 the test to that event. Particles that don't pass the test ("test False") remain in the event and are repeatedly subjected to its operators and tests. Or, if the test isn't wired to another event, all particles remain in the event. A list of all tests in Particle Flow is available in the Tests topic on page 2956. See also: ■ Operator on page 8069 Texel A texel (short for Texture Element) is the base unit of a textured graphic, which defines the surface of a three-dimensional object. The base unit of the surface of a 3D object would be a texel, while a 2D object would consist of pixels on page 8092. Ticks Ticks are the way 3ds Max views increments of time. There are 4800 ticks in a second, so you can actually access time down to 1/4800th of a second. Given a standard, NTSC video frame rate, there are 30 frames in a second, and therefore 160 ticks in each frame. When you use the FRAME:TICKS display format, time is shown in frames and ticks, delineated by a colon. This format lets you adjust the time slider in Glossary | 8147