Disabling smoothing by default on object creation

[guido77]

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!

[Swordslayer]

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.

[guido77]

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?

[guido77]

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.

[Swordslayer]

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@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?

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

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@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.

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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.