3Ds Max 2009 UV unwrap hotkey question

breakneck

hey all, I've been looking but I can't find the answer. Is there a hot key for this?

PhilipK

Not by default, but you can add one yourself:
"Customize > Customize User Interface" then choose "UVW Unwrap" in "Group" and scroll down till you find "TV Element Mode". And just give that a hotkey of choise.

Hope that helps

renderhjs

TexTools has a macroscript that extends the selection. If you have faces selected it will select the associated shells (just like that checkbox). If you have edges selected it will loop that edge selection.

If you don't bother installing TexTools, here is the script as standalone:

macroScript context_extend_selection	category:"TexTools"	ButtonText:"Extend Selection" toolTip:"Extend Selection"
(
	undo on(
		local objs = modPanel.getCurrentObject();
			if (classof (objs) == Unwrap_UVW ) then (
				local _mode =objs.unwrap2.getTVSubObjectMode();
				if (_mode == 2)then(--edges
					objs.unwrap2.uvEdgeSelect();
					--$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.geomEdgeLoopSelection ()
				)else if(_mode == 3)then(
					--faces
					objs.unwrap2.selectElement();
				)
			)
		--)
	)
)

run that script and then from the customize menu in the TexTools category assign it to a shortcut.

Autocon

PhilipK wrote: »

Not by default, but you can add one yourself:
"Customize > Customize User Interface" then choose "UVW Unwrap" in "Group" and scroll down till you find "TV Element Mode". And just give that a hotkey of choise.

Hope that helps

Honestly it seems these 3D modeling programs go out of the way to give the most unhelpful naming to useful things.

TV Element Mode? where in the hell did they get TV from!

Thanks for that one though PhilipK. I always just assumed that was un-hotkeyable. Use it all the time and now I can has hotkey

renderhjs

TV = TextureVertex

breakneck

yea, thanks for the tips guys. . . I would of never guess TV element mode.