Shift Dupe Geo in Max 2008

killingpeople

so i was playing with Max 2008 and in previous versions of Max, selecting faces, with move tool, holding shift and clicking, will dupe those faces. i like mirroring/rotating selective areas this way. you have to actually move the faces in order to dupe them now. any max 2008 pros out there that know how to make it work the old way i explained?

thx

edit:
might as well ask this too, i will delve into the menus more later, but lately i've just wanted to make shit rather than learn certification shit. the wireframes are retarded looking now. they have some kind of anti-aliasing on the wireframes, i hate it and want the old wireframes back. seen? is there an option for this?

Eric Chadwick

Wireframe AA is in your Direct3D (or OpenGL) display setup dialog.

Duping faces, sorry can't check, rendering an anim.

AnimeAngel

You can do Ctrl-V and copy the faces without moving it. I know it not quite the same but it will work.

killingpeople

i'm hoping max 2009 wireframes will have motion blur and bloom options for next gen modeling lulz

Rob Galanakis

The shift-drag was broken in Max 2008. I can't remember whether it has been fixed in 2009. But it definitely stopped working in 2008. No known solution, tons of people have been pissed about the issue.

MoP

Just to clarify, Rob... shift-drag in Max 2008 is unchanged. You can still duplicate objects, faces, whatever by shift-clicking and dragging your selection.

What you can't do anymore is shift-click in place. So you can't just duplicate an object or face on top of itself like you used to. You can still do edge extrusion using shift-drag.

It's true that it's annoying though - I can't understand why they changed it. CTRL-V now copies stuff in place, but shift-click in place does nothing. Weird.

Rob Galanakis

Well I don't model in Max. I was just going from what I remember discussing with our Character Artists... I spent a few hours investigating when we switched to Max 2008 a few months ago. I found out quite a bit but unfortunately I nor he/they can remember any of it (and apparently what I thought I remembered is more hazy than I thought).

Marcan

MoP wrote: »

What you can't do anymore is shift-click in place. So you can't just duplicate an object or face on top of itself like you used to. You can still do edge extrusion using shift-drag.

I also find it very frustrating. Now I just quickly activate snap to vertex and snap it back to where it came from.

I liked that "feature" though. (I always assumed it was a bug)

Eric Chadwick

killingpeople wrote: »

i'm hoping max 2009 wireframes will have motion blur and bloom options for next gen modeling lulz

still waiting

Rob Galanakis

EricChadwick wrote: »

still waiting

Stop waiting! All you'd need to do is write your own shader that renders wireframe/wireframe on shaded, along with a scene shader that would perform the motion blur and bloom on the wireframe render! Bam, modeling in the next-generation!

Marcan

killingpeople wrote: »

i'm hoping max 2009 wireframes will have motion blur and bloom options for next gen modeling lulz

Whoa, headaches FTW?

If Max starts shipping like that in the future will they include aspirin in the package as well?

Eric Chadwick

Rob, yeah then hit undo.

Mark Dygert

Marcan wrote: »

Whoa, headaches FTW?

If Max starts shipping like that in the future will they include aspirin in the package as well?

Nope no aspirin, but it will ship with a free copy of "Smart ass quotes from KP" and that one will be near the back.

Eric Chadwick

The world would be decidedly last-gen without KP.

killingpeople

hey don't blame this generation on me, i'm just a messenger

nezach

You can use Detach and tick the "Detach As Clone" option to copy in place (Max2009). I have it on hotkey now. Progress at Autodesk is measured by adding extra steps to do things I guess.