Max 2010 Edit UVW channel 2?

cholden

I've run into this problem in Max 2010, wonder if anyone has a fix.

I'm unable to access map channel 2 in the UV editor. Switching to map channel 2, as circled in red, does nothing. In previous versions I get a pop-up asking if I want to perform this operation, then everything works as intended.

Eric Chadwick

You have to press Reset UVW. The default behavior now is that it copies whatever was in UV1, which you can override by pressing Reset.

cholden

Thanks, Eric. That fixed it.

Rhinokey

ya this drove me bonkers a few weeks back when i first noticed it

renderhjs

ha ha, classic Autodesk trap
not sure what drove them but way to many people including myself stumbled upon this and didn't knew further until after asking here or someone.

In TexTools I wrote a function that opens and closes the UV editor and makes the correct preparations in order to edit the specific channel - because it was way to confusing for me when working with multiple channels.

cw

this was one of the best* improvements in 2010, especially as it came as a surprise while working on uvs unsuspectingly.

i expect it can be chalked in as user error, but im sure i lost some work. bah humbug.

*obviously not