Edge selection query

scourgewarper

In max if you select one edge on the top of a cylinder and click loop it doesn't select beyond that original edge you selected. I usually get round this by selecting the top cylinder poly, holding shift and clicking edge sub-object mode but i'm just curious as to why this doesn't seem to work, it seems so simple. Is it just max this occurs in?

renderhjs

its a bug that will be fixed with max2010 alternativly use polyBoost (which is included in max2010) which does it the propper way.
The same btw. applies to UV- edges it simply fails on edges

scourgewarper

Cheers. Incidentally, i've read many feature notes on max 2010 but can't for the life of me find the release date for it, I assume it will be before june as theres some courses for that version starting then.

Anyone know the date it's coming out?

Rob Galanakis

scourgewarper wrote: »

Anyone know the date it's coming out?

In the year 2000.

scourgewarper

I take it thats a way of saying nothing much has changed since that release then

Ghostscape

Max's edgeloop detection checks at each vertex to see if there are three new edges coming off the vertex (it already has the previous edge), and then it selects the middle one, and repeats. With the top of a cylinder, there are only 2 edges (the side and the loop edge) so it fails.

If you add a cap segment so the edge of the cylinder does not have an n-gon on one of its sides, then it will select properly.