3ds max 2012 viewport

Oniram

I remember when seeing a demo at GDC the viewport background in 2012 had a gradient, like that in maya or mudbox. is there a way to set that in max?

EDIT: and while im here, ill ask another question.

is there a way to have 3ds max show thumbnail previews in vista? the computer that i use that has XP will show a thumb of the scene when you go into thumbnail file view mode. in vista (and ill assume 7 as well) it just shows the icon

megalmn2000

You can use this: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/bg-switcher
Pretty cool and get's the same result.
I use it to feel like I'm on another package while staying with the tools of 3ds Max.

Oniram

ooh thats neat. thanks.

[HP]

megalmn2000 wrote: »

You can use this: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/bg-switcher
Pretty cool and get's the same result.
I use it to feel like I'm on another package while staying with the tools of 3ds Max.

Didn't work on my max, got all sorts of errors. Did you tried this on max2012?

--No "SetAsBackground" function for undefined.

Stromberg90

I did just try it on max 2012, works great here.

[HP]

I was copying the script into the startup folder, muscle memory.

Fixed now, but damn that's a lot of color banding on this gradients if you have gamma correction on, so make sure you turn it off.

Oniram

NVM got it to work.

@HP: will having gamma correction off make any sort of a noticeable difference with models n such?

Arahnoid

[HP] wrote: »

Didn't work on my max, got all sorts of errors. Did you tried this on max2012?

--No "SetAsBackground" function for undefined.

As far as I remember this heappen when you extracted root BGSwitcher folders from archive directly to Scripts folder.
It was my fault to call both root and inner folder with the same name "BGSwitcher":(


By igor_grinchesku at 2011-05-19