3ds max old chamfer inside Editable Poly

ray40

hello, I´d like to know if there is a way to revert how the chamfer works inside editable poly, before it would do a regular chamfer by default, in recent versions of Max, it does like a round corner, and you need to click twice. I know you can open the options, select 0 segments, and then is fine, but you need to do that per mesh. Thanks!

Klunk

do it in editable mesh ?

ray40

hehe not an option. Edit mesh shouldn´t even exist any more

iam717

Guess xtra step of removing the edges you do not want is in order.

sux, i haven't left 2016..

Klunk

macroScript set_chamfer_mitre

category:"Claudes Utils" 

tooltip:"set_chamfer_mitre" 

ButtonText:"mitre"

icon:#("PolyTools", 2)

(

on execute do 

(

for i in selection where classof i == Editable_Poly do i.edgeChamferMiteringType = 1

)

on isEnabled do selection.count > 0;

)

Vexod14

Hi there ! Just found out somewhere on autodesk forums : https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/set-chamfer-to-default-to-smooth-chamfer-only-and-not-the-whole/idi-p/7293034/page/2#comments

You can change defaults persistently so every new session of max will keep using your settings instead of resetting them each and everytime you apply an edit_poly/collapse stack :  
1 - open the maxscript listener
2 - copy these lines one by one and hit enter after each entry to apply the setting : 

result = DefaultParamInterface.SetDefaultParamValue editable_Poly "edgeChamferSmoothType" 1 persistent:true

result = DefaultParamInterface.SetDefaultParamValue editable_Poly "edgeChamferSmoothThreshold" 180.0 persistent:true

result = DefaultParamInterface.SetDefaultParamValue editable_Poly "edgeChamferSegments" 0 persistent:true
result = DefaultParamInterface.SetDefaultParamValue Edit_Poly "edgeChamferSmoothType" 1 persistent:true

result = DefaultParamInterface.SetDefaultParamValue Edit_Poly "edgeChamferSmoothThreshold" 180.0 persistent:true

result = DefaultParamInterface.SetDefaultParamValue Edit_Poly "edgeChamferSegments" 0 persistent:true

That said chamfer still asks for a validate click once chamfer is done, I'd be curious (and happy tbh) to learn how to prevent this

Eric Chadwick

Edit Mesh needs to exist btw, because Edit Poly has rules about topology such that it can't support things like an extruded edge. So, EM is there to support opening older MAX files, importing weird meshes, etc.

thomasp

The penance for using Edit Mesh this side of the year 2000 should be to having to skin the resulting mesh only with the Physique modifier.

Vexod14

Edit mesh also keeps vert.normals with the symmetry modifier, useful when you don't know how they were made

Klunk

Editable poly is extremely flakey to develop for so much so I stopped trying to. IIRC it wasn't until v2024 they fixed this little gem

and that 1 sec pause as max struggles to draw the ui

HAWK12HT

uh why dont you copy and paste the chamfer with desired settings.. 
pasting it with all objects selected (it works like instance then) or just paste individually per mesh and change settings to your desire without having to reduce segments.