scene-states are cool (max)

Justin Meisse

I only found about scene-states recently from Rhinokey, they seem mega awesome and it's weird that I never hear about anyone using them.

I've just started using scene states to isolate certain sections of a very large scene I'm working on for example: I hide everything except one room and all the props in it, right click and select "save scene state", highlight "object properties" and then click save.

I've created scene states for multiple rooms and I can access them just by right clicking and selecting restore scene state.

you can save a bunch of other info like materials and lights but I haven't messed with that yet.

Eric Chadwick

Better than layers?

sinistergfx

Sometimes layers just aren't enough.

Jeremy Wright

Frickin' sweet. I just tried it out and I like it.

gamedev

My only gripe is that you can't save states of geo. I think that would be really handy. Rather than cloning off a mesh at different states or saving max files.

e_x

Us animators at Mythic use them all the time for stuff. We have different armor variations on different states and also have all of our export bones on a state, including one for just lower body exporting. Right Click, change state to Export_Bones and everything is hidden properly. Then right click again and get the mesh and animation controls back. They rock.