Ephere Scene Manager making Alt-Z not work

hobodactyl

I really like the Ephere scene manager, but when I install it it seems to make Alt-Z stop working as a way of switching to the zoom tool. Has anyone else had this problem, or is there a better scene manager or something? I made sure it's not just overwriting the hotkey or something but that's not it.

Yozora

never tried this plugin before
I use outliner; http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/outliner
And saved scene states via quad menu (its kinda like a layer manager by itself, quickly jump from 1 saved state to another) but I have been looking for a quicker/more efficient alternative, because saved scene states require quite a lot of "re-saves" as you add more objects in the scene that are not saved in previous saved states.

What do you like about the ephere one? I guess I'll try it myself for a bit.

Edit - guess not, theres no working version for 3d max 2009 64 bit it seems

NZA

Yeah I had this problem too - had to stop using ephere cus ALT-Z is one of the main shortcuts I use :-(

Really frustrating and quite bizairre!

hobodactyl

Alright I was wondering if this was just a problem I had :P Yozora I tried out outliner but it seems a bit weird to me... I wish alt z worked with Ephere

commander_keen

lol, zoom tool :P?

hobodactyl

If you have any suggestions for maneuvering around in max better I'm all ears :P

commander_keen

mouse wheel, or Ctrl+Alt+middle mouse button

hobodactyl

I swear I tried Ctrl+Alt+middle mouse button before and it didn't work... now I feel dumb :P Thanks

hobodactyl

I forgot on the scene I'm working on it's so large the ctrl+alt+mmb zoom is just super slow and I haven't found a way of changing the zoom rate to be more like the magnifying glass zoom

Talbot

Anyone know where to get this plugin for 3ds max 2009 64bit?

Yozora

hobodactyl wrote: »

I forgot on the scene I'm working on it's so large the ctrl+alt+mmb zoom is just super slow and I haven't found a way of changing the zoom rate to be more like the magnifying glass zoom

Click on object and then use "Zoom extents all selected" (Z if using default hotkeys, I think - just edit the hotkey to what you want, same solution applies to your Alt+Z not working, just bind zoom tool to another key)