please make this up to par and as fluid and comfortable to use as Maya.   please please please. Animating in Max is worse than going to the dentist when the dentist is a horse. Show More

  And also make a better dialogue box than this.   What does this even mean to the average user?   Which version of AI is this? which version do you support? what should I do? Show More

Easy one guys, lock the Reference Coordinate System to whichever one you choose, should it be local, world etc. Make sure it's locked so when inevitably you edit something you will probably need to scale, move or rotate it. At the moment it keeps flipping back to View, this is lazy programming, we all know this, it's been like this forever.   Thanks,   Jason Show More

This has annoyed me for a while, and I've had to change it everytime I have a new scene. Everyone I've worked with says they always use both "polygon count" and "triangle count" and never use "vertex count" or "frames per second", and "Total + Selection" is preferable over "Total". Does anyone else agree?     On the Display Performance, which finally had it's map sizes increased from 1024 to 4096 in 2024, it still however tabs through each dialogue box not in order. Commonly, in programs that have been designed properly, you would tab DOWNWARDS. The Display Performance tabs from the first box, to the sixth box, then back up one, then down one, then down TWO, and then nowhere, and then back to the first box, and then the second, then nowhere again, and then the third box, etc. I know the UI would have just been thrown together, but it's been 15+ years with this, and it's a simple fix to sort the UI tab orders.     Also, this menu appears twice in the drop down menu, both with different names. Why does it appear twice, and why with two differing names?                 Show More

there is only 10 sub material slots visible. Have to use a slider if more sub materials are used. How great it would be if I could use all my monitor vertical resolution to see the submaterials... Show More

I suggest not adding new features in the next version of 3ds Max for now. Optimize existing tools, UI, and interaction methods before adding new features.   1: The software starts slowly and many existing functions are bulky. Can you use NURBS, mesh smoothing, and other functions as plugins without loading them by default? If you really like these functions, you can load them yourself; 2: Can the UVReactor plugin be purchased and built into 3ds Max, which would be much easier to use than the UVW modifier; 3: The UV editor window, VFB window, etc. can be docked on the main interface; 4: Can Alt+MMB default to perspective view rotation? Every time using Alt+MMB from the front, back, top, bottom, left, and right perspectives, it will enter the orthographic view and need to switch to perspective view again. The utilization rate of perspective view is much higher than that of orthographic view. 5: It is recommended to put the statistical data of splines and polygons together for easy observation, and the function of splines needs to be further strengthened. You can refer to Blender's spline function; 6: Can I add this spline function? Name 'Mesh Surface'; 7: Add a pie menu with built-in plugins, referring to Octopus and Pie menu Editor; 8: In the curve editor, you can zoom the view by scrolling MMB instead of Alt+Z; 9: The carrying capacity of the 3ds Max face count is great, and adding engraving function would be perfect!   3：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPBinJtMAuU&t=20s 5： 6：Mesh Surface | ScriptSpot Show More

It seems this display style is only available as a modeling aid at the SubObject level within Edit/Editable Poly. By all means, it should be made available at Object level as well and should be exposed as an option within Viewport Settings.   Houdini has this from Houdini 14 and Blender from Blender 2.8. Modo also supports that. It doesn't only make the viewport more aesthetically pleasing and wireframes easier on the eye but it also makes the complex models shapes more distinguishable and exponentially improves the selections. On the most basic level, it seems it fades out the wires on the back of the model. Blender seems to add something extra to the mix that thickens the general contours of the model so if the Max team could come up with something similar it would already make Max viewport grow young again.   Houdini (zoom the image pls)     Blender (zoom the image pls)     Modo     A related topic:   [Viewport] [Wireframes] Vertex and Edge thickness auto-scale based on distance from view for better readability/to prevent wireframes cluttering the models Show More

If I create any controller on any parameter on command panel, or I wire a parameter, It gets grey and its impossible to edit anymore from comand panel.   Example: Create a box, On curve editor, choose Height, and add a Noise controller.  Now your Height Box on command pannel is grey out. You can not access the noise controller from here anymore. You need to acces the noise controller from the Curve editor.    Ideally I will like to double click or right click or something to edit easily this noise controller from my modifier panel. Show More

When the render settings dialog button is pressed, it takes 4 seconds for the dialog to appear. This should be instantaneous. It used to be. It's not now. Show More

When using the High Quality viewport setting with a background, reflective materials get nice approximative reflections in the viewport. This helps bring out the shape of metallic surfaces that are dependent on some kind of environment.   The problem comes when changing the background display mode from Use Environment Background to for example Use Customize User Interface Solid Color, the background reflections in objects disappear and the surfaces becomes mostly black.   It would be useful to be able to hide the background image in the viewport but keep the reflections on object surfaces. The background can sometimes be distracting when working with scenes so it would be useful to be able to disable it yet keep the surface reflections.   With background visible With no background visible Desired result (mockup)   Show More

Hi! There have been numerous posts about this topic already, I know. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/consistent-tools-workflow-and-experience/idi-p/6840252   In fact, I'm convinced that in the meantime Max' development team is fully aware of Max' UI issues, and working hard on it, but anyway, allow me to illustrate the issue again, one last time, for what it's worth:             The view menus could also be all the same, in fact:       Past Max developers wasted so much time re-inventing the wheel over and over again... every panel has it's own layout, looks, set of navigation tools, and different view menus...     Look at Softimage! It has been left to rot, fair enough, but honour it at least by learning from it's tight, appealing UI! Panels are dockable, and (mostly) have the same UI logic and looks. I always liked it a lot.   Cinema4D's UI also has this squeaky clean UI design philosophy.   Again, do it your own way - but keep it consistent and logical! 3ds Max is old, a pioneering piece of software, but also a story of missed opportunities, but I have the impression that there is a willingness at Autodesk to really get things fixed. Hope I'm not mistaken, because I still like Max, and it's 'hands-down' approach to things.   You did a good job on many UI parts already. The Particle Flow nodes have been based on the same GUI library like e.g. MCG, - good start! Don't stop now. Also, please continue introducing more icons with that nice, modern, unobtrusive style. (And contemplate if gradients in any UI elements are really necessary... matter of taste, maybe - I for my part find the oldschoolish.)   Many of your clients are professionals in the visual arts, designers, architects, etc., people who 'eat with their eyes'... what impession are we supposed to have when looking at such a UI?             Thanks for reading and your understanding!   Show More

Have a simple GIF somewhere on the app UI interface that loops so that when it is processing heavily, the animated GIF should naturally freeze thus letting you know not to click anywhere else to prevent unintentional changes (camera trucking, de-selections, object moves, etc,.). This will also let the end user know when the system is active / ready again once it starts naturally animating again. Should be easy to implement on the developer end.  Thanks! Show More

Currently there are, AFAIK, 2 options to display geometry as unintrusive on the viewport without having to create a special material: "Display as a box" and by changing visibility or checking see-through.    See though is still obtrusive most of the times for big objects.  And "display as a box" can become huge if the object is big, to the point that it's hard to know where the object is actually located.    It would be nice to have more display modes for geometry, similar to what Itoo's Forest pack has: Thin box, arrow, point cloud, and so forth, without having to convert the object to a proxy. Show More

Hi, i noticed a bug with your "Autodesk Compositor Link Plugin for Adobe After Effects" which I verified on multiple PCs/configurations and multiple versions of AE too. After installing your plugin, if I try to import inside an After Effects project a multilayered .PSD file as "Composition", it freezes the software leaving me the only option to force quit. If I remove your plugin, AE gets working fine again. Please notice that your .dll hasn't been updated since 2010!!! I think it's time for a little check-up for this little pretious tool!   PS: I already contacted Adobe, but they stated that they cannot do anything about it since the plugin is developed by autodesk. Show More

its incredible how much break out can a simple innconsistent UI element as a scrollbar introduce. The thick white and light gray modifier stack scrollbar is so unnecessary.   Max is centered around its modifier stack. Why it didnt get that slim nonintrusive  scrollbar of the comand panel yet ?       Show More

It would be extremely helpful to be able to copy an entire vertex coordinate into the clipboard, and then paste it. Right now, if you want exact coordinates, you have to enter X, Y, Z by hand. This is cumbersome and prone to mistakes.     In comparison, some game engine editors, like UE, allow you to copy/paste coordinates:   This is what it actually looks like in the clipboard, so you can manipulate it, if you want, before pasting: (X=-8000.000000,Y=2000.000000,Z=76000.000000)   This could be a huge time saver.   Apologies if this already exists and I just haven't been able to find/figure out how to do it. Show More

Give the option when exporting an object out of Max to auto-populate the Export Name field the same as the object name in Max. Show More

I find the layout of the skin modifier quite unintuitive and think it would benefit from an update. It would make sense to me if the skin modifier would show vertices and cross ections as subojects in the modifier stack and in the modifier itself. Instead there's only the envelopes and everything else is a part of that. The big "Edit envelopes" button feels counterintuitive. After all what I usually want is edit vertex weights directly. So from a workflow perspective I would prefer the interface like it is in the edit poly modifier, where I have a "selection" menu with envelopes, vertices, cross sections etc. The concept of mere selection options as it is now on the other hand is rather confusing to me. The reason I made this observation is the fact that for many years (as I have to admit) I never realized that "Cross Sections" is not just an option that allows me to select cross sections. It actually prevents the "Orbit SubObject" behavior from working as intended when I work with vertices. (Toggling it on or off also doesn't have any obvious effect, unless you actually use cross sections, so it's hard to intuitively understand) Another really helpful addition would be integrating the skin utilities into the skin modifier. For serious work in games where you have to fix already skinned models or LODs it is an important tool. It could be another menu in the skin modifier. Show More

We need to be able to pick a sub object selection (Face(s),Edge(s),Vert(s)) and use it as the reference coordinate system the same way we can with objects. This should work for splines as well, curved segments would still just use their 2 vertices, and the spline sub object would use it's first and last verts.   Also there needs to be a command for "Set Reference Coordinate System" that we can hot-key. So just make a selection, hit the hot-key, and bam you are working in that ref coord. There is a free script that does something similar by aligning the working pivot, to your sub object selection. This video demonstrates the workflow pretty well. It works ok, but is a little slow/clunky and puts you in working pivot mode which is not always ideal. It also does not work with splines, and you can't pick a previous ref coord from the drop down. https://youtu.be/NypFt_W9NAc Show More