3DS Max 2009 Weirdness

Softmints

Hey guys, this is my first post so forgive any noobishness.

Been using max for a few years but every now and then i'm working away and max likes to throw up new and strange things to baffle me.

So right now, i was working on a model in vertex and all the lines and vertices turned black. Moving a vert now makes the entire model dissapear, reseting, reloading, restarting didn't help. Making a new object is fine and it wont do it for that.

So can anyone help me out and tell me what random shortcut or button i must have pressed and help a guy out?

thanks anyone/everyone!

(model is a WIP and is highly likely to get better)

ScoobyDoofus

My first advice would be to create a duplicate copy of your scene...then create a simple box, convert it to an editable poly and "attach" your car to the box. Then delete the box.
See if that doesn't resolve your issue. Also, try Resetting the Xform.

Mark Dygert

^ yep.

You can also try Utilities pannel > Reset Xform > Reset Selected > Collapse modifier stack.
You can also try exporting the mesh as .OBJ and then import it back into your scene. But I really think what scoob mentioned will get things fixed

onionhead_o

im also having problems with max2009. I duno how to display normal map in realtime. I went to the directx material dialog box and the option for displaying dx material as standard material is not there.

t4paN

onionhead -- http://www.bencloward.com/resources_tutorials.shtml http://www.bencloward.com/resources_shaders.shtml

Check these two urls out, and also read this thread http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=48305.

It's also better to not hijack other people's threads with unrelated issues :P

onionhead_o

sry for the unrelated issue. and thanks for the info.