3ds Max 2017 now remembers perspective view!??!?
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Hello @Anonymous,
In the future please make a new thread for each issue. Thank you very much for that. I'll do my best to answer your questions.
1) This viewport behavior is a bug fix. This is how Max worked in the past. It makes a lot of sense for a scene where the render view is locked and it needs to be passed to other artists. If someone were to change the camera view to top and then send it out, the top view would render because it replaced the camera view. Most people I know in production are happy about this.
2) You can change the UI colors to anything you want. If you don't like white, change it. Customize->Customize User Interface->Colors->General UI Colors->Text. If you don't like the bold nature, check out MS ClearType settings.
3) There are many ways to move an object exactly 5.3 meters. The easiest is shown below. Set your display units to meters first.
4) You can rotate an object around a certain point the same exact way, just set the pivot where you want to rotate around and then right click the rotation button and type in your degrees. It's worked like this for as long as I can remember.
5) You can make a copy of an item with 3 copies evenly between them with the Array tool. I have more information here. Use the right side where it says "Totals". You do have to nudge the slider a bit as the spacing can change minutely, holding down ALT helps there. All in all, simple to use.
6) Attach List is a bit slow, you have a point here.
7) Applying materials from a library that are multi-subs does work. I just tested on 2014 and 2017 just in case I wasn't aware of an issue. All fine. I have no idea what this is about, I can't repro this issue and I tried for a while. Corrupt users settings?
8) For me, the horizontal layer manager setup is saved between sessions with no issues. It is saved by default, but for some reason not on your machine. User permissions most likely. For layers, my layers are never expanded and it's not saving between sessions, so that is a valid point.
9) I don't really understand what you're asking in post 7. Couldn't you just select those Mat ID's and just change them? I must be misunderstanding.
10) You cannot delete the currently selected layer in 3ds Max. To delete a layer, make sure it's not the current layer.
11) If you cannot rename a layer, it's probably because you have more than just that layer selected. (Such as select Children.) Make sure only the layer is selected.
12) Select by name. Scene Explorer is a bit slow, I prefer the selection floater. Old school, but works great and is very fast. Chances are the problem is that you have thousands of objects in your scene, still fast with selection floater.
That covers most of your issues here. Please create a new thread for each issue in the future. I am happy to help you in any way possible, one issue at a time.
Best Regards,
Alfred (AJ) DeFlaminis
3ds Max Technical Support Specialist
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Hello @Anonymous!
No problem at all, I totally understand and I just feel bad when I know someone is having a problem. I want to help in any way possible. 🙂 Thanks for the kind words and I don't mind if you explain greater detail at all! My goal here is to listen to the customers and do what I can to help, log issues, change processes to enrich the customer experience, or bring big issues to my superiors to be looked at. I really do appreciate if a customer is willing to type a long response because it gives me an insight into what can be improved and I will do whatever I can to make it happen, in whatever time frame is possible. So really, I want to thank you for taking the time to share these thoughts, it really does mean a lot to me.
I have seen quite a few complaints about the UI for 2017. I don't have a lot of experience with UI matters so I have to defer to your and the devs expertise about what is considered right and wrong, and it does sort of align with what I have heard from other users. I do use the light interface which to me makes it easier to discern between headings, but I do have to agree with you that some of them run together, at least in the dark UI for my eyes. I do think the old UI is easier to read, and I (on a personal level) don't believe an icon with no color has any place in a UI unless there are only 3 to 5 buttons like a phone might have. The command panel is especially tough for me. I have logged this issue based on some concerns I've seen in another thread as an improvement request. The cleartype will allow you to AA your screen fonts differently in Windows and is actually really helpful in general. I used to not use it at all but now I can't live without it. 🙂
I do like sketchup, it's a cool piece of software with a very cool name. It's a shame that the exported geometry is so messed up and hard to work with, it's the only thing I think needs an improvement there. But it really does create things very fast and I even like the model/mannequin when you open up a new scene because it gives an immediate sense of scale. It's hard to bash it though for the price, and I think it's quite an awesome app. There are free plugins for it that can clean the scene before export and merge like materials or separate things and cleanup edges, wonderful stuff! (Clean3 for example.) A lot of my viz projects come in from Sketchup.
There are 3 blanks at the bottom of the Max UI which replicated those areas I had mentioned where you type in values, so you still have that option if you want another method. There's a button to switch between relative and absolute transform modes as well. Since the UI has these things exposed it may not be too hard to script up a tool that works more like what you want, or floats where you want it.
2017 is growing on me, and I think they devs have some really cool features in the MCG and Data Channels. There are a couple plugins I use a lot that were never recompiled for 2017 which is a shame, but I do like it a lot. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me and letting me know what your thought process is. I really appreciate that you took the time to do that, thanks again!
Best Regards,
Alfred (AJ) DeFlaminis
3ds Max Technical Support Specialist
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