3ds Max custom icon sets (maya Inspired)

< ASH >

Because I use both Maya and 3ds Max (that has some really crap default icons) and I love Maya shelves, I decided to create several new 3ds Max icons sets to be able to have some decent icons in 3ds Max as well.
To do this I used both some original Maya 2016 factory icons as well as some of Nightshade v2.0 icons (Martin Dahlin has been so kind to allow me to use the new Nightshade icons, so many thanks Martin!): some of them as they are, while many others have been reused to generate brand new icons (and some other have been created from scratch).

Once completed the sets I thought that maybe somebody else here on Polycount might found them useful.

Custom Icons 1 (mainly modeling tools)
- Icons Preview
- Download (.rar)

Custom Icons 2 (mainly modeling tools)
- Icons Preview
- Download (.rar)

Custom Icons 3 (mainly load,save,import icons)
- Icons Preview
- Download (.rar)

UV Tools (mainly UV and UV Editor tools)
- Icons Preview
- Download (.rar)

The following images show a preview of most of the icons (some unfortunately were still grayed out because inactive in the moment I grabbed the screenshots):
- Custom 1, 2, 3 preview
- UV Tools preview

To install the icons sets you have to copy the 3 .bmp files that you find in each .rar file (16i, 24i,32i) in the following
<DRIVE>\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\<VERSION>\ENU\usericons

Keep 3ds Max closed while copying the icons sets in the folder (or remember to close the program and open it again once done).
Once in 3ds max then you will be able to select the icons to customize you user interface, as shown below




I hope this helps.

monster

That's pretty awesome man.

< ASH >

Hey monster glad to hear that somebody else other than me found them useful.

Justo

Hey Ash, thanks for sharing this. I don't get to see icons very much because I try to keep my UI as minimal as possible, but I'm super obsessed with having a "pretty" UI. Would you happen to know how to change the other default icons? The main icon, maybe? For that one, I tried replacing the icon_main.ico file in the ProgramFiles directory, but rebooting Max showed no changes... 

 

< ASH >

Hey Justo, from what I found most of the icons from the Main toolbar (the one that you would like to change) cannot be changed as I explained above. Some of them can actually be change from what I see: I simply tried to right click on some icons of the Main toolbar and on some of the drop down menu appears.
Honestly I haven't looked into any other way to change the icons in 3ds Max since I made these custom icon sets, so I can't really help any further than this about customizing the Main toolbar icons. Sorry man.

However I did a quick search on google: https://www.google.it/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=3ds%20max%20customized%20main%20toolbar%20icons

... and I found a couple of interesting pages that you might find useful.

- Toolbar Panel (Autodesk Knowledge)
- Can't edit the “Main Toolbar” (Scriptbot)
- 3DS MAX – HOW TO CREATE MAXSCRIPT TOOLBAR BUTTON?

I hope these help.