topic Re: Disabling smoothing by default on object creation in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Disabling smoothing by default on object creation

guido77 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:55:12 GMT

Hi there,

I've been using Max for many many years, and when creating new objects I always need to "clear all" smoothing groups.

Is there a way to setup Max to create objects with no smoothing in the first place?

Thanks!

Re: Disabling smoothing by default on object creation

Swordslayer — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:36:53 GMT

Are we talking about primitives? Could you try something like

fn setUnsmoothed ev nd =
(	
	local obj = getAnimByHandle nd[1]
	if isKindOf obj GeometryClass and not isDeformable obj and isProperty obj #smooth do obj.smooth = false
)

callbackItem = NodeEventCallback mouseUp:true added:setUnsmoothed

to see if that's what you want? It will set the .smoothed property to false when you end the object creation.

Re: Disabling smoothing by default on object creation

guido77 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:35:36 GMT

Thanks.

I'm not sure I understand.

Yes, this is for primitives, but where would I put the script to make the primitives to not have smoothing by default?

Re: Disabling smoothing by default on object creation

guido77 — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:16:59 GMT

Actually, it's not just with primitives.

If I do a boolean operation to an extruded closed line, it will also get smoothing groups from somewhere.

Re: Disabling smoothing by default on object creation

Swordslayer — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:14:38 GMT

@guido77 wrote:
Thanks.

I'm not sure I understand.
Yes, this is for primitives, but where would I put the script to make the primitives to not have smoothing by default?

To the startup folder. You can run it once (CTRL+E in the maxscript editor) to see how that works for you.

@guido77 wrote:
Actually, it's not just with primitives.
If I do a boolean operation to an extruded closed line, it will also get smoothing groups from somewhere.

No fix for that, while it would be possible to, say, make it so that on conversion to editable poly/editable mesh, the smoothing groups are cleared, many other object types don't have explicit smoothing group switch and adding a Smooth modifier in the middle of another scene operation would quite likely break the workflow.