That is a good one rollin didn't think of that. The issue i see with this and what might've been said already is that the normals would still be wrong wouldn't it? (by angles) essentially changing the triangle face direction or am i not correct in my thinking so even IF you managed this achievement you would still need the…
Maybe time for me to start my Mel-Script thread... I'm not a programmer, a simple 3d artist... ...But I always like to develop tools to maximise the efficiency of the members of my team. I think it's the most important point on a project. (because of money and human is not an animal and don't have to repeat everytime the…
I've got you beat on the "anal" department. A list of my pet peeves when working with other people's files (some of these are very 3ds max - centric so bear with me): - People who save our their max files with a single viewport maximized, usually in "User" mode. Upon toggling to a four pane view, you discover that ALL four…
There are lots of posts on polycount about starting out...a couple searches would be fruitful. 1. 3dsmax (for about 14 years..as a hobbyist and a professional)..also tried Maya, and Modo. 2. +autoback +plugins +scripting +powerful tools -lot of useless crap packed into it -expensive -useless version updates to turn a buck…
It really depends on what version you're using. max 9 and lower: - Disable autosave. It had several issues with stability and it also would clear out the undo list. It was fixed in newer releases 2008 SP2 or it was in with the creative extensions, I think. Don't crank up the number of undos, and don't crank back in the…
[ QUOTE ] Highlight selected verts don't do anything. I want my selected UV point in the UV editor window to select the corresponding Vert on the geo. I also like to hunt UV points on the mesh itself and have them show up in the UV window. It's usefull for unwrapping overlapping sections. [/ QUOTE ] Turning on Highlight…
When Max crashes and it says; "attempting to save a copy of the scene, this file maybe corrupt". Then send off a hate mail "bug-report" to Autodesk. Then you open the file it attempted to save and everything looks ok so you press on. Guess what its royally messed up on the back end. You're better off going to a previous…
here's a custom status bar i use, has a scripted version of the tti that works with subobject selections. Currently needs work, has some bugs and i'm sure there's a lot of redundant code,but the functionality is there. Haven't spent much time on rotate or scale. Careful with selecting large amounts of edges or faces in a…