removing edges in 3dsmax

Ruz

removing edges is very handy for polygon reduction but there is a horrible bug whereby if you add an edit poly , then proceeed to reduce polys by removing edges, occasionally if you 'undo' it screws the mesh up big time. anyone encountered this and found a workaround?

Eric Chadwick

Don't undo.

Seriously though, collapse the stack first. Sure you lose some history. But undoing stack operations isn't stable enough for my tastes.

Ruz

yeah , its unfortunate that the stack has to remain intact in this case as I need to copy the edit poly to another mesh.
perhaps there should be an 'undo' modifier:)

Eric Chadwick

You might try upping the autobackup interval, so you have a constantly-recent set of saves.

Ruz

good idea, though I have shyed away from autobackup recently,since the files often take so long to save.
man nothing is ever easy:)

Xenobond

If you go under preferences, the file tab has a few options you can toggle off when it comes to save file handling.
Compress on Save - makes saving take a little bit longer (much longer if it's a big file it's trying to compress)
Save Viewport Thumbnail Image - not much of a difference here, but if you don't care about seeing the little thumbnail of your scene
Save Schematic View - again, less info saved = less time spent saving
Save File Properties - same here

See how far down the road that'll get ya.

Mark Dygert

K-Man that totally helped. I was able to shorten the interval between autosaves thanks to those handy tips. Saves much faster and saves more often WIN WIN!