I simply can't belive what did just happen to me... I was doing the final touches in worldmachine,added the snow based on height & ready to export the map to udk when suddenly worldmachine crashes,I open it again but in a moment of distraction I do double click on "Save" icon instead of "Open",choosing my map & realizing 1…
i use the cut tool a lot when i model. only real problem i had was on my WoW contest model when i clicked to open photoshop, went back to Max and was trying to do a cut when photoshop finally opened and took focus away from Max. when i clicked back on Max the cut tool stayed on and i couldn't do anything with it. a couple…
Yo, quick update though I don't have any new images (I might later tonight). Today I had a bit of a meltdown because I noticed that I had to redo a lot of work. I'm not sure what the reason is, but it must be either file corruption during a crash (happens a LOT with this project), or carelessness by yours truly. Basically,…
It kind of depends on what you'll be doing? I'll assume modeling & materials? I am by no stretch a Maya expert but I did start off with Maya years ago, switched to Max and then later went back and brushed up on Maya. I recommend checking out NEX http://draster.com/nex-1.5/. It does a decent job of upgrading Maya's modeling…
I don't have the same issues that I once had. It used to be as bad as you have it but that was 2-3 years ago and since then I've upgrade desktops at work and at home, I'm running 64bit win7 and there have been several updates to max. It seems like the buggiest it ever got was on 32bit XP with low ram 4mb and 3dsmax2010, it…
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I just came across this using 3dsmax 2011 64bit, though it's just stuck on: Preparing polymesh for normal export... at like 85% = / Going to leave this over night in hopes It will rectify itself. If not I'd like some detailed info on how to go about closing off that part of the program…
Sometimes you can accidentally create some "illegal meshes" with faces with no edges, or different verts with same ID's. And the file will work until you try to edit one of these elements. If you can merge the model into a blank scene you can try converting it to edit mesh and then back to edit poly to see if some part…
Hello guys. I managed to recover the file. Here is how i did it and what caused it if you want to know for yourselves maybe. In my autoback folder of 3dsmax (my documents) there was a MaxBack.bak file. I never thought that would be the file... I changed .bak to .max and now i have my scene back :DDDD Also the reason why…
So I am working with Max 9 and randomly when working the shading of my object turns off and all that is left is a Red Wireframe of my object. Generally Max will crash with a corrupted file error and attempted auto save which will generally keep the Red Wireframe problem but not always. I have tried hitting all the…
You hit on something there, I was totally ignorant of scratch files, infact I never even heard of them apart from downloading data when it's kept in a temporary file until completed. I know autoback does it's thing and backups your data at 10 min? intervals but these files are permanent. That raptor looks awesome too,…