Scared Helpers [MAX]

Okt

For some reason or another I appear to have scared away the helpers... they cower in fear behind the geometry in my scene.

As you can see they are clearly colliding with the geometry and should be getting drawn in the viewport.



How can I get these to show through everything once again?

Thanks,
Evan

Ott

I've been having this same issue with 2008, and they only occasionally pop into view when moving around the viewport in Perspective I usually just have to switch my selection options and drag select a bunch and hope I get the right ones...no clue how to fix the draw issue though

Mark Dygert

I've hit the same issue, it comes and goes. It seems to pop up most often when I'm working with skin and toggle on and off the "draw envelopes on top" but not always. I've tried a lot of things to try and fix it and just end up working around it. =/

multivac

linking them to point helpers for a moment with "draw on top" toggled on usually fixes it.

Okt

Thanks guys, I'll keep looking into it, If I happen to figure out what it is or a way to solve it other than what multivac suggested I'll be sure to post it.

gamedev

I'd suggest just using point helpers all together. You can turn on box and make them look like the dummys and you can toggle on and off there foreground or background visibility. I also havnt had them hide from me yet .

MoP

Yeah I ran into this same bug recently, I think Vig may be right since I always turn off "draw on top" for envelopes with Skin modifier, I will check that out tonight.

I ended up just using Point Helpers instead, and I found that if I turned on the "draw on top" option for the helpers, they got drawn behind the geometry, and if I turned it off then they appeared correctly (although not "always" on top, just regular draw style).

Maybe it's a directx bug?