3ds Max 2017 SP1 - possible two UVW Unwrap bugs (gif's available).
polycounter lvl 3
Sup people,
I have encounter two weird problems (bugs). Has anyone noticed them ?
1) When applying "Unwrap UVW" modifier on top of "Edit Poly" my UV's are getting cleared.
2) Select -> Select Overlapped Polygons in UV Editor do not work.
I am using student version of 3ds Max. Many thanks for help.
I have encounter two weird problems (bugs). Has anyone noticed them ?
1) When applying "Unwrap UVW" modifier on top of "Edit Poly" my UV's are getting cleared.
2) Select -> Select Overlapped Polygons in UV Editor do not work.
I am using student version of 3ds Max. Many thanks for help.
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Thanks for confirming this for me. A google search for this overlap uvs issue doesn't really bring up much at all. I can't imagine people don't use this. I use it all the time.
Did you guys report the overlapping UV issue ?
http://download.autodesk.com/us/support/report_a_bug.html?SelProduct=3dsMax
regarding the UV resetting after the edit mesh/edit poly modifier
i guess this is is because the edit modifier does not pass any selection up the modifier stack, thus the UV Unwrap above does'nt receive the underlying UVset. To enforce that, simply hit the "Reset UVW" in the channel rollout. This copies the current valid UV data from below to the UV unwrap modfiier. This was the default action for new UV Unwrap modifiers until some releases back ( same when changing the mapping channel), but that has bee changed to only happen on demand, as it's potentially destructive for the current UV Unwrap modifier data
Yes I did an official report for both the Sel By Material and the Overlapping UVs.
Another thing I ran into that bothered me (but have not reported on). Is that you can no longer drag select a bunch of UV islands using Select By Elements and then after that ALT and Unselect single uv islands thus cutting it back to what you want. It instead unselects everything! basically the same as if you had just clicked off in an open area. This really sucks when you start getting UVs laid out how you want them and realize a small chunk is tucked somewhere. You drag select both, Then alt unselect the larger chunk and then (possibly lock selection) move the small chunk out. Shit like that.
I've already moved back to 2014, but I'm thinking of may be doing a video for Autodesk of the things I ran into. This includes graphical viewport problems as well that are hard to describe. Also need a native way (non script listener based) to shortcut an "assign to layer". A video may be in order in hopes all the stuff shows up in a future Service Pack.
"Select by material" works for me in SME and CME ( both material editors ) when the non-scene explorer based select by name tweak is applied ( SelectByNameUsesSceneExplorer=0 in currentdefaults.ini )
Indeed the the complete deselection of uv islands is a killer - guess we have to wait for SP2 to fix this
The assign to layer thingy sounds like a perfect case for a custom macroscript, i just wonder why there is'nt one already
Something I ran into though. It broke. I had to reset max to get it to work again. I thought it was my script. But then later I got the same broken error on a native shortcut (not a script) to collapse layers that i've been using for a fucking decade or so. So may be it wasn't the script???? I don't know!!!!! Both acted the same. Same error when you hit the shortcut. Have to restart max to fix it. A hanful of things honestly made me a bit scared of 2017 and I'm waiting for future SP's to go back. I might do a little video for them of some of the crap I ran into.
Spacefrog: Strange. That doesn't work for me at all and I ran into posts about it on the internets too. People say it doesn't work for them. *shrug*.
For me "Select by Material" works using the old select from scene dialog tweak ( SelectByNameUsesSceneExplorer=0 in currentdefaults.ini ). AND using this tweak Select by material works with SME and CME ( both material editors )... So the problem lies once again in the sceneexplorer based dialogs, which apparently are not processing the material tree node selection commands---
Select Overlapping Polygons bug is still occurring for me, and we're on service pack 2 now. It's becoming an ongoing trend that with each year of 3DS Max, more core features get broken -- and it's not a good one!
At least some of the other stuff was fixed, such as not being able to deselect a UVs by dragging a selection whilst holding the Alt key.
on my thing, there was a thread already existing on it, forgot to search (http://polycount.com/discussion/173988/3ds-max-2017-uv-unwrap-window-bug)
*edit*
I'm just experiencing Max 2017 because of the horrible 2016 memory leak problem using the UV Editor window.
Also experiencing your problem with the Overlapping UVs not selecting anything...but have you also had issues with the Marquee Selection tool showing the window itself?
Example in image:
On the other hand, the long standing "Select Objects by Material" seems to be fixed in SP3 (when using the new, standard scene explorer based selection dialogs). This bug existed since Max 2016 or even 2015 ( not exactly sure)...
But SP3 seems to be picky with shader compiling on scene load ( the phase the grey-white checkerboard appears in the viewport until the shaders are done compiling ). There might lurk some problem in there for some people, though i did'nt have much problems with it ...
While UVing I switch to checker pattern preview to see how the stretching goes, while all of the sudden this no longer visualized. While having the Texture Checker or regular Checker on, the mesh shows only the wireframe, while any other option like show distortion still works fine. Dang...
Edit: the issue is really that for some reason Max turns off Show Realistic Material with Maps automatically per newly selected object. It didn't do that before nor should it. Minor issue but still annoying af.