The way max handles its skinning, morphers, bones, weight painting and all is cumbersome, unintuitive, confusing, and frustrating to use at best.   it would be great for Riggers if this tool could get a much needed overhaul. PLEASE. Show More

Hi,   Much like signing in on an Xbox or Playstation gaming profile, it would be great if your Autodesk profile followed you around from workstation to workstation. In the case of 3DS Max these would be GUI changes, Shortcut keys and other product tweaks.  So if you were in an office hot-desking situation, by simply signing in, the product would be set up how you like it to run, and when you log out it would be ready for the next person to sign in and use as they wanted it to be set up. This could be gradually expanded upon to perhaps one day include other things like plug-in licences, options for project paths and recently used cloud saved file locations. It would only take up a minimal amount of space in cloud storage (Autodesk Vault, Autodesk Docs or BIM 360), and in the case of a user being offline it might be handy to be able to carry around a USB device that contains the above information. A handy wizard dialogue box would pop up and guide you through the process of profile migration, and locations to look for it. This would enable a lot of users of older, perhaps out of support period, Autodesk titles to upgrade to newer versions and perhaps take away some of the pain of migration. Also working from home a few days a week, then office based, or on a users own workstation wouldn't be such a chore. Being a person who works with 3DSMax and other Autodesk titles on numberous workstations and location per week, I feel this is something important to look into. It could be called an 'Autodesk Wallet' (c). 🙂 Best regards, Show More

Arnold Renderer must have that in 3ds Max we need it! Show More

In 3dsmax2024, we have the Transform List Controller, but why can't we have a 'Transform Constraint' similar to Position Constraint and Orientation Constraint? This is a commonly used simple function in character rigging that allows an object to be influenced by multiple objects' transformations simultaneously based on weights. It can easily add many useful effects to rigging, such as convenient IK/FK Constraint, Controller Gizmo interconnected/linked effects, and simpler but more effective "pseudo-attachment constraints"(We can use a script to convert bone weights into constraint weights). In Maya, this constraint is called "Parent Constraint", and the documentation describes it as follows: https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYACRE/ENU/?guid=GUID-2FC0EE9E-A8D5-4B2A-A751-8B926389497A   At present, while we can emulate this constraint behavior through TransformList and Link Constraint, this workaround is cumbersome [error-prone and difficult to maintain], inefficient in both functionality and performance [considering its frequent use, especially in rigs with hundreds of constrained bones, causing significant viewport performance impact], and introduces unwanted keyframes [Link Constraint's inherent keyframes pose a risk of unintended animator modifications].   Show More

It's very frustrating as a TD not to be able to query what is in a .max file from outside it other than a list of objects and materials.   It's essential for us to be able to read the list of layers and which objects are on each layer, so we can build our own Merge by Layer utility and make other useful utilities.      Show More

Retopology in Max 2021.3 it's incredible.... Finally we have a great tools after one... I like this time... team are at work in many stuff... I love it!.... So, I like to share my ideas ever .... One thing that we need absolutely and soon it's the opportunity to drive the retopology and remesh .... like https://lesterbanks.com/2015/05/data-driven-retopology/ ... Symmetry in the operation need to be an effective option too!   Thanks guy... My is a suggestion for an incredible feature! ... Well done ... you are rock! Show More

It's an additional import option, Import multiple files. Native to Max and Maya, gets rid of the need for third party scripts. I want to be able to select multiple objects into the scene instead of one at a time. It will really help when I need to import 50+ objects at the start of a project. Show More

Long time 3ds user 10+ years, was just playing with the new Cinema 4D 2023 in built in pyro simulation system that is practically realtime. Will we ever get this in 3Ds, or will we always rely on 3rd party plugins?   Would love to see this built in. Show More

It really is about time this was made more straightforward, but would it be possible to have a simple 'one click' solution to export all customised ui elements, scripts etc so that you can have 100% confidence in having everything as it was, should you need to reinstall max or windows or whatever?     Show More

Hi,   the layer selection in the "scene explorer - layer explorer" does not clear correctly.   1. create a scene with two objects on different layers, and minimum one more empty or filled layer (layer explorer is open)   2. select the first object -> the layer entry is highlighted (when calling "(SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()).SelectedItems()" you get only this single object. No layer. Thats ok.   3. select another layer by pressing Ctrl -> now you have one object and one layer selected (when calling "(SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()).SelectedItems()" you will get the both. Thats ok.   4. select the second object without pressing Ctrl -> now you have only the second object selected but the last selected layer(s) has now a gray background and (when calling "(SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()).SelectedItems()" you will get still both, the new selected object and the last selected layer). Thats not good if you want to use only the current selection. It is not possible to know which is the "old" layer selection.   I think when selecting an object without pressing Ctrl the layerselection should be cleared also.   best regards Simon   Show More

When having an object selected and turn on the isolation all nodes getting invisible as expected. But all the visible camera targets getting visually hidden but not hidden in the scene.   If you then try to get only the visible objects in the scene you will always get also the camera targets. Maxscript: currentIsolation = for obj in Objects where not obj.isHiddenInVpt collect obj print currentIsolation   Max 2025.3 Show More

It would be handy to be able to get and set vertex normals using polyOp methods. That way, approachable custom tools and modifiers are made possible, as well as advanced Data Channel modifier operators when using the Maxscript operator with Faces as the input. Something along these lines:   polyOp.getVertNormal <Poly poly> <int face> <int vert> node:<node=unsupplied> polyOp.setVertNormal <Poly poly> <int face> <int vert> type:(#unspecified | #specified | #explicit) normal:<point3 normal> split:<bool=false> node:<node=unsupplied> polyOp.getVertNormalType <Poly poly> <int face> <int vert> --> {#unspecified | #specified | #explicit}   Where both normal: and split: would only be applicable when type was set to #explicit, with normal setting the normal direction and split specifying whether the vertex normal would be the same one for all the vertex faces or a new by-face normal will be set. Show More

There are some major problems with the Spline functions and methods inside MAXScript: Most SplineOps methods require a shape to be selected to use and a sub-object mode selected in Modify tab. Many spline functions will throw MAXscript errors because the functions are incompatible with many shapes. There is no native MAXscript access to shape class generation for SimpleSpline--requiring users to use MAXPlus which may not be supported in the future. Both of these cause very limited functionality/use-case.   In the case of #1, this causes problems when doing looping functions because of how slow it is to select objects and interact with the modify tab. It also means that those functions cannot ever be used in Scripted Shape objects.   In the case of #2, it forces artists or TD into destructive design patterns because very often the shape must be collapsed to an editable spline to be used with functions. For example, if you have a function that wants to do some logic across each knot in a ShapeBoolean, you are at a loss because standard functions to get the sub-splines and knots in subsplines won't work on a ShapeBoolean.   What if you want to know the number of splines generated from a ShapeBoolean? Try:   numSplines  $   MAXScript Error.   Want the number of segments in a ShapeBoolean subspline result?   numSegments $ 1   MAXScript error.   This problem exists with almost any shape method for most shape classes that are not Line or SplineShape.   Even if you try to get around the problem by adding a modifier you might think will make things compatible like Spline Select or Edit Spline, you still cannot get the data via standard MAXScript functions.   In the case of #3, the current limitation forces users to create BezierShapes, for example, by using DotNet objects calling MaxPlus classes. There are talks that MaxPlus may be deprecated at some point. In any event, MAXScript should have native access to creating appropriate shapeclass objects inside a SimpleSpline.   Solution:   Update all Shape functions and SplineOps to be more versatile: Update all SplineOps methods to accepts shape and subobject levels so we can arbitrarily use the functions without messing with selection and sub-object mode. These should allow shape nodes in scenes or objects inside a SimpleSpline. Update all Shape functions to work across all shape classes. Expose all needed functions to create native shape objects inside SimpleSpline with native MAXScript. Show More

I want an "Archive Selected" button. Let me explain:   I want to send a part of a scene to a colleague, current workflow: -> select everything that he doesn't need -> delete unused layers -> archive scene   This can be tedious, especially with large scenes.   PS: it's different from "Save Selected", as I need to export textures included. Show More

As 3DS users often use lots and lots of scripts for a wide variety of tasks a script manager would be very handy to track what's been installed.... Not only would it be useful for updating /sharing etc but sometimes easy to forget you have that awesome script that does that one particular thing you used last year etc.   It would be great to have: An overview/tally system showing exactly what scripts & plugins are being used by a machine. Be able to easily remove a script cleanly without having to dive through varied folders when its split between main installation and user profiles. Update all scripts from a repository. (I'm sure some studios have their own way of doing things but it would nice to have a proper interface rather than running a .bat script etc.)   Show More

There are times that using Explicit Normals in Max is great. There are other times, not so great. I propose some new functions to convert Explicit Normals into Smoothing Groups (in essence, the reverse of adding an Edit Normals modifier onto a mesh to see the current explicit normal based off of smoothing groups).   meshops.setSGfromNormals <trimesh|mesh|editable_mesh>mesh facelist:<bitarray defaults to #all> clearExplicit:<Boolean true> skipBorders:<Boolean true> polyop.setSGfromNormals <node editable_poly>mesh facelist:<bitarray defaults to #all> clearExplicit:<Boolean true> skipBorders:<Boolean true>   These methods should calculate the smoothing groups into the mesh by finding all co-located vertices with matching normal vectors and adding them to the same smoothing groups. The functions should be smart enough to consolidate smoothing groups among adjacent smoothed faces/polygons.   facelist: Should limit results to the passed bitarray. If no faces passed, use all faces. clearExplicit: Should remove the explicit normals on the faces that acquired smoothing groups* (see next option). skipBorders: When true, explicit normals are kept on the border vertices when clearExplicit it turned on. Show More

It's strange that this function doesn't come with 3DSMAx by default. It is a quite important tool for animators. In Maya this functions is completely integrated and is called "Insert" key, by right clicking on the curve editor.    Hope others share my view, thanks  Show More