3ds max manipulator

RazorBladder

Another ridiculously basic problem, for some reason my 3dsmax manipulator where u can drag along the axis to move/scale/rotate has vanished and I can't seem to get it back.



Replaced by something much more dull and hard to use

MoP

Press X.

RazorBladder

Dear god.

Mark Dygert

I think they bunged up the default hotkeys for 3dsmax just to have a laugh at their users. I think everyone has had that happen to them at one point or another.

What I wouldn't give for some Silo type attention... Maybe someday.

pior

It's better without it anyways!

MoP

Lies.

Michael Knubben

Truths

Slum

Here in Max land, its called a Gizmo, not manipulator. gizmo.

Xenobond

It happens to everybody.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy58Gdux9aY[/ame]

Marcan

It's actually really useful when you select the axis in which you want to lock your "move" in, then press X to lock this axis and spacebar to lock your selection.

almighty_gir

you should wait til you press spacebar by accident.

then you're fucked...

ElysiumGX

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=54124

stop pressing buttons in Max.

almighty_gir

according to that thread, the solution to problems with max would be to simply never install it =P

Flat Tires

Jesus...I restarted max and then restarted my computer before googling this...how the hell is this manipulator better in any way.......god i hate max

danr

GIZMO

a manipulator is something else

i'm guessing it's a throwback to early versions of max when you didn't have such a thing. Makes people feel more at home

now if only Adobe would learn from the need for old school familiarity, and add a button press to get brush blending modes on the right-click, PS CS3 would be a work of unbridled genius

Michael Knubben

danr: Gizmo is only the maxspeak version of a manipulator.

Marcan

Flat Tires wrote: »

Jesus...I restarted max and then restarted my computer before googling this...how the hell is this manipulator better in any way.......god i hate max

Like I mentioned before...

Marcan wrote:

It's actually really useful when you select the axis in which you want to lock your "move" in, then press X to lock this axis and spacebar to lock your selection.

Mostly used in a "snapping" workflow.

sir-knight

my favorite is making the vertexes smaller... so small that you can't see them (seems to happen anyways when the computer goes to sleepmode and wakes up... damn verts disappear.


O X and spacebar are a pain in the ass tho.

Marcan

sir-knight wrote: »

my favorite is making the vertexes smaller... so small that you can't see them (seems to happen anyways when the computer goes to sleepmode and wakes up... damn verts disappear.

That was fixed in Max 2009 by the way.... It bugged the heck out of me, too.