At GDC I stressed so much to my Pixologic friend that if Autoback wasnt incorperated then we would riot. He said he would look into it, that when you add features like autoback it causes the app to be more system heavy and would limit the on screen pixol draw. Only time will tell :(.
Here's a couple new additions that aren't making the headlines, but that I think are pretty cool... Smart Autoback! Now autoback only kicks in when you've made changes to the scene, so no more leaving for lunch and coming back to have all your backup files overwritten with the same file. And when you manually save, the…
Max has a Auto Backup feature built in, its enabled by default and set to 3 iterations so you should check your autoback folder: C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\3dsmax\autoback You can adjust the frequency and number of iterations in: Customize > Preferences > Files Tab > Auto Backup I have mine set to 10 files and 10min.
Thanks everyone, I will work in the projects stuff (Didn't have any idea) and be saving in iterations... and yeah, when I was working in big big scenes I had to turn off autoback, 2 minutes to save the file is annoying :/ Importing gives a 'no import module found' or something like that error. Edit: Would anyone explains…
ugh Maya History. I've had saving without deleting history completely destroy and corrupt some of my high rez gun models before... so retarded. I've heard some Maya jockeys argue that Maya does in fact have an "autoback" like Max... their argument being "you just have to go in and turn it on in preferences" To me, this…