[Max] New viewport window?

SideEffect

Hey guys!

Does anyone know if there's a way to make a new floatable viewport window? I'd kind of like to have one camera off on my other monitor to see something I'm working on zoomed out overall close to the way it'll be seen in-game. I've been doing it in photoshop lately and thought it would be kind of useful in Max too.

I've tried looking for something like that in the help files but I either don't know what I'm searching for or there isn't anything like that.
Maybe there's a plug-in out there for something like this?

Thanks!

McGreed

Sorry, as far I know its not possible to detach a viewport. The next best thing is just to expand your window to the other window. If you were using XSI, I think it was possible to do it.

SideEffect

Aw well that's a bummer.
Anyone else want that feature on their wishlist for the next version of Max? :P

Eric Chadwick

Yeah, people have asked for this for a long time. I think we'll only see this once the re-write is complete.

Someone made a scripted window for Max, but it consumed RAM like crazy...
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&t=906296

SideEffect

oh lame. Well hope to see it happen some day, would be really cool

Out of curiousity, does Maya have this feature?

Eric Chadwick

Yes it does, in the Panels menu you can use Tear Off to make a new window.
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/index.html?url=files/Basics_Menus_Panels_menu_.htm,topicNumber=d28e85107