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1. Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Topic by Junkie_XL · Aug 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   I must be blind, I can't find this option in max 2013. The rest of my co-workers have no interest in upgrading and are just sticking with 2012. I don't want to save-as and hit the drop-down box every single time before I check in a max file. Is there a way to set 2013 to just automatically save as 2012?

2. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by monster · Aug 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Try this: (Warning it will overwrite without asking, but that's the point right?) saveMaxFile (MaxFilePath + MaxFileName) saveAsVersion:2012 quiet:true I don't have 2012, but it works if I change it to 2011 and test that. BTW, you can paste that line of code into the listener, then select the line and drag an drop it to…

3. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by polygrinder · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Great script. I like to save my Max files using the + button to save them in sequence instead of over writing the same file. Could this script be modified to save as 2012 files and to trigger to auto-save in a numbered sequence. thanks

4. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by Bryan Cavett · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Polygrinder: you can try this hack script. I call it a hack because it needs to add a scene node and assign it the scene name so that I can use the "uniqueName" method which only works on scene nodes. This gives me an incremented file name which I can save the scene with and then delete the node. I havent tested it much…

5. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Aug 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Copy the line, go into max, press F11, paste the line, then select it and drag it into the toolbar. Now every time you push that button it will execute the code.

6. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by Junkie_XL · Aug 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks. That seemed to work. Not really sure how you drag a line to the listener though to auto-create a button...?

7. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by renderhjs · Aug 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   perhaps with a little bit of maxscript

8. Re: Can I automatically save as version 2012 in max 2013?

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   The save incremental "max saveplus" command is separate, with no modifiable parameters for version or file name like "saveMaxFile". BUT the version might already be saved into the existing file and the save incremental command just caries it over like it does with a lot of the other settings? So you MIGHT need to just save…