max scene corruption

dejawolf

let me tell you a small story:

first image is a thumbnail, of what the scene looked like before i shut down my computer yesterday.
its all i have left, and is the actual thumbnail of the very next scene you'll see.


this is what met me when i woke up, and started my computer today...


so let me just gently ask, what in the most backwards of hells of storming shit, is this ultimate craphouse all about?
and its not the first time its happened either. this is just a long list of models,where parts have suddenly expanded into gigantic proportions.

things to note: most of the scenes were from an older max version resaved, and in this particular scene i had Xrefed
another tank into the scene.

to say i'm sick and tired of shit like this, doesn't even begin to describe what i feel.
last time my laptop nearly flew out of the window before accelerating back down to earth at 9.8m/s^2.

even my backup scene was afflicted!

Joseph Silverman

Did you check all of your autobackups? Usually at least one's okay, to max's credit.

dejawolf

none of them was. all of them had some missing parts that i had not modeled at the time.
less time consuming to just scale down the mesh, and re-align it with the drawings.

dom

maybe check the units setup in the scene you xref from. whether they are the same as your current working scene. and then perhaps take a look at any xref settings. what about freezing xform?

Eric Chadwick

Sometimes Max's Direct3D driver goes awol on me, showing inverted normals, displaced wireframes, etc. A cold boot fixes it for me, no harm done to the file itself.