Bug in Max's UV editor? - can't scale UVs

JoakimMellergard

I am new to Max so I can't tell if it's a bug or a "feature" (and in that case pretty weird feature...).

When I scale UVs in any direction or uniformly the UVs snaps back to the original size. When it happened on one object I collapsed the Unwrap UVW and made a new one but when it happened on the second object this wouldn't help so I can't tell if it's related.

Any ideas?

dtschultz

Yeah, that is so annoying. I don't know what causes it, but whenever that happens I just use the freeform transform to scale the object. Hold control as you scale to constrain it to your original proportions.

JoakimMellergard

OK. Thank you for confirming the bug at least!
UV mapping in Max in general is very frustrating in my opinion.

Justin Meisse

With the presence of the freeform transform tool I don't really see any reason to use the individual move, rotate, or scale tools. I've been using the freeform transform tool exclusively my entire career.

monster

JoakimMellergard,

This was a bug that was fixed with a service pack: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/downloads#?rows=10&sort=score

You only need to download the latest service pack for your version of max and install.

JoakimMellergard

monster wrote: »

JoakimMellergard,

This was a bug that was fixed with a service pack: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/downloads#?rows=10&sort=score

You only need to download the latest service pack for your version of max and install.

Ok thanks! I am not sure we are able to install this because of plugins etc but thank you for the information!

JoakimMellergard

Justin Meisse wrote: »

With the presence of the freeform transform tool I don't really see any reason to use the individual move, rotate, or scale tools. I've been using the freeform transform tool exclusively my entire career.

Does freeform transform allow for uniform scaling, rotation snapping and moving islands in only specified axis? I can't test it right now.

Justin Meisse

JoakimMellergard wrote: »

Does freeform transform allow for uniform scaling, rotation snapping and moving islands in only specified axis? I can't test it right now.

uniform scaling: hold ctrl, you can also hold alt to scale from the center

rotation snapping: yes, it respects Max's angle snap toggle

moving in a specified axis: hold shift

you can also move the center point and rotate and scale in respect to it's location.

monster

I've never had a service pack cause problems with any plugins. If it does the service pack is easy to uninstall from Window's Control Panel "View Installed Updates".

I strongly recommend installing the service pack.

JoakimMellergard

Justin Meisse wrote: »

uniform scaling: hold ctrl, you can also hold alt to scale from the center

rotation snapping: yes, it respects Max's angle snap toggle

moving in a specified axis: hold shift

you can also move the center point and rotate and scale in respect to it's location.

Perfect!