Update: I've found the following script which allows you to get straight to the base object: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/modifier-auto-select I can't find a script that returns you to the same sub-object of the same modifier that you were on before you left the object. If anyone knows of one, or can script…
Hey Vig. I navigate that way too. It only works for sub-object modes at the top of the stack though. A lot of the time I have an editable poly/spline at the bottom of the stack with deformers on top. Ideally, it would be great to be able to click on an object and be at the same sub-object of the same modifier that you were…
You might be able to do that through scripting I don't think there is a way that max does it by default... I enter, leave and navigate sub-object modes by using the hotkeys 1,2,3,4 (I think that's the default). I click an object and punch 1 for verts, to exit back to object mode I hit 1 again. I think you might need to…