topic UI Showing Black around Safe Frames in 3ds Max Forum

UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

braddewald2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 20:17:55 GMT

Just installed Max 2019. Clean Install. When showing the viewport with safe frames the left and right of it are black instead of the neutral gray color. I can't find any setting in the UI>Colors menu that changes that back to gray. The odd thing is that using the light scheme changes it back to neutral gray but none of the color settings change.

Re: UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

braddewald2 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:16:28 GMT

I guess the black color is default behavior.

Is there any way to change it to a neutral gray - the contrast is really distracting and I don't know why there's no setting anywhere to change it from black...

Re: UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:41:16 GMT

Hi,

Go to Preferences settings, Viewports and disable Mask Viewport to Safe Region.

Re: UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

braddewald2 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:54:20 GMT

That was it! Thanks so much, it was driving me crazy!

Re: UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

braddewald2 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:03:16 GMT

Wait that wasn't it. Now it's showing the scene expanding beyond the safe frame lines. I want it to be "masked" still. - just in gray instead of solid black...

Re: UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:15:43 GMT

First, go to Viewport Configuration, Background tab (Alt+B) and make sure "Use customize User Interface Gradient Colors" is selected.

Second, Go to Customize, Customize User Interface, Colors tab, in the elements dropdown list select Viewports. On the list, just below, go to Viewport Background and set your gray color, you will need higher value than your actual gray (highly suggest to try with a pure red to see how it works because the changes are really subtle). Go back to the list and check the Viewport Gradient Background Top and Bottom and make sure they represent your actual viewport color that you want (No red needed here ). Click Apply.

Or you can do the inverse Config, using the gradient color as the mask area.

Re: UI Showing Black around Safe Frames

ibrahimooo — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:33:56 GMT

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