I seemed to have buggered up my viewports!

John Crean

Hi, I went onto 3d max studio today to finally begin learning character design, however I noticed that all my viewports besides my perspective view have just outlines and I am not sure how I managed this, I presume I caught a button or something. The viewports don't even seem to have the text in the top left corner anymore.

If someone could help me fix this problem it would be appreciated

Swizzle

You can use the F3 key to toggle between wireframes and shaded, and F4 to turn selection wireframes on and off. F2 will change the display mode of selected polygons when in edit poly.

Couldn't say what would make the text disappear, though. Maybe someone else can chime in.

Eric Chadwick

Weird one.

Could corrupt video card drivers, try installing the latest.

Could be the graphics mode, try Customize menu > Preferences > Viewports > Configure Driver.

Could be you need to quit Max, delete 3dsmax.ini, and restart.
http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/15/ENU/3ds-Max-Help/index.html?url=files/GUID-AFC5FE94-8B39-4AB9-99DC-DF7AF309BF2A.htm,topicNumber=d30e7451

John Crean

Thanks for the fast replies, however it is now half fixed. I am able to display the image now with the help of the f-keys (thanks swizzle) but it still defaults on load up to the purple outline. I am still missing the text in the top left of each view port, I am able to change some of the settings by going into view -> customize view ports, however I have noticed some options are not there.

Eric I tried your suggestions and it showed no chance, however I was unable to configure the driver as the option is blacked out.

Eric Chadwick

Yeah, so you're using the Nitrous driver. Try using Choose Driver and setting it to Direct3D. This works better with game shaders, but can be slower with dense meshes.

Also a re-install may be in order. Have you restarted the PC lately?

John Crean

Changing to Direct3D seems to have fixed the problem (I forgot to restart 3ds max studio so it did not change :P silly me )

Thank you Eric for the help, now if only I was good at 3D modeling :P