Max 2017 Bone Edit Mode Stops Working

zachagreg

So I am doing some rigging in 3ds max 2017 and I'm noticing a particularly annoying occurrence. When using the Bone Tools rollout menu from the Animation panel I can go along working just fine. After a while however I notice that the "Bone Edit Mode" button becomes grayed out and unclickable. Closing and opening the rollout does nothing and the only time the button comes back to being usable is when I am in the process of moving a bone, a time when I cannot click the button regardless.

Has anyone experienced this or know a fix? So far the only thing that works is closing and reopening the file. Which as you can imagine is quite a pain. There doesn't seem to be a reason so far why it happens, just after some amount of time it stops functioning. 

I do have all the service packs for 3DS Max 2017 so I am at a loss.

monster

Sorry you are having problems. Bone Edit Mode is just a shortcut for Don't Affect Children in the Hierarchy Panel. Try checking if that toggle is available press.

zachagreg

Hey monster,

I wasn't able to replicate the bug for an entire day at work. So I will attempt again tomorrow. It may have been some weird fluke, I don't know. I might try it at home again today as well. Will let you know if anything comes up/.

zachagreg

Okay I got it to happen again. Created a new bone chain consisting of two bones. I got to edit the bone placement using the Bone Edit Mode and it is grayed out. I go to the Hierarchy panel and the Don't Affect Children option is grayed out as well. 

monster

I think you need to turn off Auto Key and / or Set Key modes.

zachagreg

That fixed it, thank you. I will update, if it occurs again without auto key enabled. I cannot remember if I had it turned on when it first occurred. It would make sense though.