Next, click on your sphere and Convert it to an Editable Poly, or add the Edit Poly modifier to your sphere. Then select just over half of the polygons on the top half of your sphere and delete them. Like this: With all the polygons you want deleted selected, simply press Delete on your keyboard. We have the part of our bowl looking nicely. Next on your Modify tab, add a Shell modifier to our sphere half. Give the an outer amount of 3.0 so that our bowl has some thickness to it. Now we need to make some copies of our bowl to work as deflectors. While deflectors are wonderful things, they require a little bit of creative work on your part to make sure that whatever is being deflected doesn't stick through the edges of our deflectors or in our case the sides of the bowl. We make this bowl itself a deflector, but from experience I can tell you that our ice cream will end up poking through the other side of the bowl if we do, a deflector stops a particle from passthrough through the surface of the object, but it doesn't stop whatever is surrounding that particle from passing through, so we would end up with all the blobs and mesh of our spheres showing up through the edge. A simple fix we will use to solve this problem: With your bowl selected, press Ctrl+V on your keyboard. This is the hotkey for Duplicate in max and will make an exact copy of our bowl. Make sure to select Copy in the object settings, and give your copy a name that you'll remember. I called mine bowldeflector1. Then click the OK button. You won't notice much of a change as our copy is still sitting directly on top of our original, make sure you have the new copy selected and grab your uniform scale tool. With your uniform scale tool you can shrink the copy of our bowl, until it fits just inside our first bowl. Grab the scale gizmo right in the middle where the three axis bars meet as shown above, and then click and drag inwards until you see the copy of the bowl fit nicely inside the original. I have changed the color of my bowl just to help illustrate the difference and placement.
Next, click on your sphere and Convert it to an Editable Poly, or add the Edit Poly modifier to your sphere. Then select just over half of the polygons on the top half of your sphere and delete them. Like this: With all the polygons you want deleted selected, simply press Delete on your keyboard. We have the part of our bowl looking nicely. Next on your Modify tab, add a Shell modifier to our sphere half. Give the an outer amount of 3.0 so that our bowl has some thickness to it. Now we need to make some copies of our bowl to work as deflectors. While deflectors are wonderful things, they require a little bit of creative work on your part to make sure that whatever is being deflected doesn't stick through the edges of our deflectors or in our case the sides of the bowl. We make this bowl itself a deflector, but from experience I can tell you that our ice cream will end up poking through the other side of the bowl if we do, a deflector stops a particle from passthrough through the surface of the object, but it doesn't stop whatever is surrounding that particle from passing through, so we would end up with all the blobs and mesh of our spheres showing up through the edge. A simple fix we will use to solve this problem: With your bowl selected, press Ctrl+V on your keyboard. This is the hotkey for Duplicate in max and will make an exact copy of our bowl. Make sure to select Copy in the object settings, and give your copy a name that you'll remember. I called mine bowldeflector1. Then click the OK button. You won't notice much of a change as our copy is still sitting directly on top of our original, make sure you have the new copy selected and grab your uniform scale tool. With your uniform scale tool you can shrink the copy of our bowl, until it fits just inside our first bowl. Grab the scale gizmo right in the middle where the three axis bars meet as shown above, and then click and drag inwards until you see the copy of the bowl fit nicely inside the original. I have changed the color of my bowl just to help illustrate the difference and placement.
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