topic Re: 3ds Max general discussion of things i'd like in the software. in 3ds Max Forum

3ds Max general discussion of things i'd like in the software.

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 04:35:05 GMT

I've got a few things, sorry for the long post. First of all I want to say I love 3dsmax. And I want you guys to continue wanting to make the program better and reliable. I use max in a production environment every day, PLEASE read and take into account the below notes. If I'm wrong and there is in fact solutions for some of these issues below I'd love to hear.

CONSISTENCY WITH HOTKEYS:
I'd like to see some consistency with hotkeys by default. If I'm using 1,2,3,4,5 to change to their respective types (vertex, edge,face,ring, element) I expect this to be the same when I'm in the UVW modifier altering UV's. And this isn't the case. With everything but the element key. I'm not sure why this is the case but it's frustrating.

A PROPER REDO BUTTON/HOTKEY:
The semicolon "redo" is the most frustrating thing also. This should be a universal "redo last action" I believe in Maya the "g" key does this, and works as expected. But in max it only works in specific cases with specific modifiers. It's a nightmare.
If I'm in editing UV's and want to straighten a bunch of shells to edge. I have to grab my edge, mouse up to the straighten button, mouse down, select new edge, mouse back up to the menu, straighten edge... I understand you can hotkey this, but to avoid having to map everything. I should be able to select edge, click button. Select edge, semicolon, select edge, semicolon etc.

FBX EXPORTER:
Another thing to note. Is the fbx exporter, having a box for "Turbosmooth".
To ANY user, this would mean to them, yes I want to export the turbosmooth on the model as well. But for some reason checking the box is actually to remove the turbosmooth? (My understanding to then embed that modifier into the fbx? But not applied) this is very silly and confusing to new users. If you still want that functionality. At least display a description of what it's actually doing.

IMPORTED FBX's AND THEIR LAYERS:
Importing New models into a scene! As far as I'm aware you cannot turn off fbx's bringing in ALL of their scenes layers with them. This is also a nightmare for trying to keep a scene you're working on clean and also importing multiple models, I know you can "clear empty layers" but this is a silly workaround and brings its own issues.

CUSTOM UVW PIVOTS:
Custom pivot points in the UVW modifier. This is something I constantly work around on a daily basis. You currently allow setting the pivot of the selection to corners/centers etc but nothing to allow CUSTOM pivots, in my cases I need scale multiple UV shells by the boundary's of the UV or to a specific grid point. NOT the boundary's of my selection. Just having a button that actives a custom pivot option, which you can then have in combination with the snaps toggle would do the trick.

SELECTION SETS IN UWV:
Selection sets. These should work again, in the UVW modifier as well. You completely negate the power of being able to make complex selections in edit poly, saving the selection in the top menu. Then you can't use that selection when you're unwrapping. Why? For example. If you don't allow for "select similar" while in UVW, you should at least allow us to make our selection in edit poly, select similar, save selection, enter UVW, drop down, hit your saved selection. Another example of continuity between modifiers and the program itself.

SCALE ELEMENTS UVW:
Re-scale elements. Another UVW one. There should be an option to scale/normalize only selected elements. If this needs to be based on the average scale of other shells in the UVW that's fine. But sometimes i'd like to only normalize a few different elements. Not everything.

Hopefully there is some stuff there that already has solutions, and someone here can let me know, but if not some of these features/fixes would be great to have in the package.

Cheers.

Re: 3ds Max general discussion of things i'd like in the software.

brentscannell — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:27:09 GMT

Hi @Anonymous, thank you for this great feedback!

Have you seen the "Ideas" forum section? That would really be the best place to post these things, as this forum is generally geared more towards support. On the idea page, we can track the kind of value this brings to the 3ds max community via votes and discussion with product design teams and other users. I recommend to break these out into a few seperate topics to make sure discussion stays feature specific, to improve our ability to triage and track traction on a specific area of the product.

Check it out:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/idb-p/164

-Brent

Re: 3ds Max general discussion of things i'd like in the software.

Alfred.DeFlaminis — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:24:32 GMT

Hello @Anonymous and welcome to the community,

What a great post! You have clearly put a lot of thought into this, and I salute your attention to detail. @brentscannell is correct that the general forum is primarily about tech support, but the Feature Request / Idea board is a great place to get heard. If you do make Feature Requests for each of these ideas that you have, please post a link in this thread to each of the Feature Requests.

The reason for this is that when another customer reads your thread they will also have an easy link to the idea which helps get your ideas more votes and more consideration in the future. If you do this, I will vote on each of your ideas myself. Thank you so much!

Best Regards,

Re: 3ds Max general discussion of things i'd like in the software.

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:33:45 GMT

Hey guys! thanks for the reply and sorry for putting this in the wrong thread.
I'll break this up into different posts and might add some more as well. Should i remove this post from here?

Cheers.

Re: 3ds Max general discussion of things i'd like in the software.

Alfred.DeFlaminis — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:36:47 GMT

Hello @Anonymous,

It would be better for your ideas if you left it! That way when people find your thread, they also have links directly to you ideas. In a way, having a thread as well as the Feature Request is the best way to get your ideas seen and voted on by a wider audience. If you do make the requests, please do post the links in this thread and I'll vote on them as your first supporter. Thanks!

Best Regards,