Creating poly's in 3dsmax.
Utterly minor thing - but one of the few things I've found a bit clanky in max is the poly creation. Has anyone ever written a script or plugin to match, say, the one in XSI? E.g. just drag from edge to edge rather than on a vertex by vertex basis?
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if you have an N Sided hole which is a closed loop then use the cap command to create an ngon in it
... except bevel. mayas bevel tool makes me drool.aaahhah Quads!!
I do with nearly every model
Only thing is when the complexity increases it becomes less useful and also mesh problems like unwelded verts can cause a crash.
Problem with mayas bevel is it creates faces on open edges and along the resulted beveled edges. Also when beveling vertices's it doesn't average the verts.
Not to sound like a xsi fanboy here, but the bevel is even better in xsi. You can do normal bevels that preserve the quads, but it has a few more options for doing stuff like solid chamfers (Similar to maxs edge extrude) and stuff like automatically creating smoothing groups on the resulted edges.