Max wizards: Altering Max's default settings?

adam

Hey guys,

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to set up Max so that when it loads up it has all my settings I normally manually adjust every time I start a new project.

Basically my settings are...

-2 view ports, split vertically (front & perspective)
-Selection brackets turned off for both view ports
-Edged Faces turned on for both view ports

And in addition to those, is it possible to tell Max that every new primative I convert to Edit Poly should have the first Shader in the material editor applied to it (re: grey?)

Thank you! These settings will save a few minutes every project and be really helpful.

Fuse

save as maxstart in your scene folder, cant help with the auto assign material though

Slum

yeah, just save as maxstart.max in your scenes folder. if anyone has info on auto assigning a material, i'd like to know as well.

i would suggest maybe just a new script that converts to edit poly, then assigns the material. add that script in your quad menu and use it instead of the standard.

MoP

You could write a script that just converts the selection to Editable Poly and assigns the material to it, then put it in a quad menu or something.

Slum

Wow, mop, how insightful! XD

MoP

Yeah, bit vague... heh, it's what the Maxscript Listener is for
Record those actions, test them back again, save as a macroscript.
F1 -> Maxscript Listener if you're in doubt.

Bryan Cavett

You can also have a script apply a gray mat to any new object that is created automatically.

Slum

Actually, MoP, I was referring to the fact you just said the same thing I did in the previous post. :P

MoP

I'm so far off in space today...