3DS Max 2014 - Attaching destorys Face-ID's

mobpapst

Hey guys,

i've a little szene in max with a multi sub material on it. The szene is attached and it all workes well. But wenn i create a new piece that i want to attach to the szene all my face'ids get broken and i need to set them all up manualy again. i tested several matching options at the attaching dialog but its always the same. Do you know how to solve this problem?

Eric Chadwick

Is the "szene" a single Editable Poly object? How many vertices are in the szene object?

Is the szene material a single Multi/Sub-Object material, or are there multiple M/S-O's nested within each other?

mobpapst

-yes the szene is a singe editable poly object.
-the szene object has 6.5k tris
-the whole szene only has one multi sub object with 20 id's

Eric Chadwick

Have you used a Reset Xform on the scene object, and then Collapsed the stack?

Can you post a screenshot of the model?

Have you tried restarting 3ds Max, then merging the object into a new scene file?

monster

Apply the material to the new object before attaching. This will prevent the Attach Options dialog from appearing and modifying your Material IDs.

(I'm assuming that by FaceID you mean Material ID, since you are dealing with materials.)

mobpapst

y sorry i meant Material ID's. I tryed it to give the attaching object the szene multi-sub material first. but i got the same results

monster

Yeah, we'll need to see screenshots or post the max file.