3ds max menus offscreen...

Jeremy Wright

My wife's graphics card burned-out on her and I gave her mine (I had onboard graphics to back me up). I was running a dual monitor set-up, but now just one. My material editor and render dialog window are somewhere off screen and I don't know how to get them back in view.

I know there was a thread about something similar to this a while back, but I can't find it through the search.

Any help is appreciated.

Mark Dygert

Launch the window so its active, hit Alt+Spacebar, then M (for move), click/drag it back on screen.
This works for any windows window thats off screen.

Also if you have Ultra-Mon installed you can hit Alt-Spacebar, then down arrow 6 times, then enter and it will move the window to the other monitor.

If all this sounds cryptic and weird, try it out on any window on the screen right now, like this browser window

Jeremy Wright

I'm not at home right now, but I will try it out as soon as I get home! Thanks!

Jeremy Wright

So far it's not working and I have ultramon installed.

MoP

You can open your 3dsmax.ini (in the base 3dsmax folder) and look for lines like:
[MtlEditorPosition]
[RenderDialogPosition]

The first 2 numbers after those will be the location of the window's top left corner in pixels, X Y.
Change those to something like 0 0 and restart Max. The windows should appear in the top left of your main monitor.

Jeremy Wright

Thanks, MoP, but I got it to work, afterall.

I swear I tried it like 20 times. I think you have to use the directional arrows on the keyboard before you can drag it onscreen. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/ Doing that worked.

Thanks, again, guys.