changing 3d studio max 2011 UI to look like 2008 ver

kunglao

Can it be done?
So used to 2008 look that the 2011 is a little bit of a shock.
If not i guess i'll just have to familarize myself with it

Eric Chadwick

You mean colors? Or layout and tools?

Better IMHO to learn the new tools and try a new workflow, than to hide them all away. Then you can decide which things are useless, and which might be awesome new timesavers.

Sean VanGorder

You can customize the interface pretty much any way you want. I agree with Eric though about learning some of the new features. A few of the graphite tools are extremely handy.

renderhjs

Another way is to get familiar with Maxscript and create your own panel with buttons or macros to call.

thomasp

hardcore thread revival.

i just did that pretty much - having had to upgrade from 2008 to exactly this version. no legacy problems so far - the only stuff that's annoying is tacked on UI 'improvements' that have been added to max in the meantime and getting rid of them.

i ported my scripts over, got new plugin binaries and loaded the 2008 UI scheme, including glorious tab bars and all. pretty much looks and works 1:1 like 2008 which leaves me with the task of going through the last few releases' new features to see which ones make sense to be added to the toolbox.

having largely ignored max development over the last few years the update process so far thankfully seems much less painful than anticipated to me.

Will Faucher

I dont work in 2011, but in 2012. The only thing I want changed is the darn caddy. It sucks, I want the old one from 2008/2009/2010 back! :P

BradleyWascher

Yes I agree the ability to switch between having the caddy and the old pop up screen would have been nice

Sean VanGorder

You can get the old caddies back with a workaround. You can read about it here and here.

Piflik

The downside of this hack is, that you sacrifice all new functions of ePolys that were introduced in 2011 and 2012.

Sean VanGorder

Piflik - True, that's the only reason I haven't reverted back to the old caddies.