1. Create the sun in the scene
2. Switch to the perspective view on the top view.
3. Switch to perspective view again
4. Settings viewport (default lighting) lost.

As an ArchViz modeler, I go through this little sequence constantly:

1) Draw a rectangle
2) Right click, convert to Editable Spline
3) Go to vertex sub-object mode
3) Select all vertices
4) Right click and change vertices from bezier-corners to corners.

I have hotkeys customized to help me speed through this process, but it would still be very helpful to have the vertices default as 'corners' when rectangle shapes are converted to editable splines, or when they are combined with other shapes by unchecking the 'start new shape' box.

It is no so comfortable for me that object created are already in some marked layer. Do it like in maya that objects are not layer oriented all the time .

Could the walk (footprints in lwr r.h. cnr of UI) please be more controllable with the arrows. The ] and [ keys for speed make it jump. It'd be awesome if the walkthrough were smooth like in AutoCAD, where you can specify the step size (e.g.500mm) and the steps per second for speed.

If I don't click exactly on the object row in a blank area, the dialog closes itself and I must reopen the merge / import dialog again... The dialog should remains opened instead !

Here are some additional functionality I think would be nice to have when right clicking spinners.

Normal right click = resets spinners to 0
Alt + right click = resets spinners to default values.
Ctrl + right click = copy
Shift + right click = paste

Make Preview allows only grab viewport that fits current screen resolution. Via scripted screen grabber we can grab viewport larger then screen resolution. It must be allowed with Make Preview.

to have symmetrical uv maps, we delete half of the mesh, use mirror modifier and then collapse and merge geo and flip the merged geo's uvs back to uv map symmetrically. huge time loss. it would really help if I could go and say to 3dsmax, in the unwrap uv window, use this edge loop as a mirror axis on the uv map bam! instant butterfly uvs.

Make the Edged wire bigger cuz it doesn't show all in Edged faces mode due to the pixel or wire is too small. but why directX works just fine?

When we drag the ribbon panels "into the workspace", there should be a pin button in the right black border (where we find 'toggle orientation' and 'return panel to ribbon').

When the panel is pinned it should stay there even if the (rest of the) ribbon is closed.

If it's unpinned while the ribbon is closed, the panel should just disappear, but reappear in the same position when the ribbon is opened again.

(PS : I use the ribbon as a floating window).

Please make it possible to use the scroll wheel to switch between tabs anywhere in the ribbon, not just directly over the tab titles, like it is now.

In max 3,4 & 5 you could drop a video file (avi etc) into the material library & you could drag this onto an object in the scene to use it as an animated texture. I find normal textures need too much tweaking just for it to display correctly.

updating the license for autodesk 2012. max 2008 stops working but maya 2008 works. licensing server procedure not fool proof

Problem: select some objects, apply Unwrap,flatten mapping, change the texture space to something non-square - 512x256 for example.Scale the UV clusters to remove the stretching that occurs when changing the texture space dimensions, apply pack UVs. Watch the UVs getting stretched again.

There is a script in Max can display all the envelops, but not available for our Skin modifier UI.

The Substance materials doesn't work in Mental Ray - Distributed Bucket Rendering :(

More Information here: http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/autodesk-3ds-max--3ds-max-design-2011/substance-and-dbr/

Sometimes I need to move a vertex to an other vertex's position. But the source and the target vertices are not in the same object, so I can't use the align tool. I think the best way is two button near the coordinate spinners. A "copy coordinates" and a "paste coordinates" button.

When turning on "realistic materials with maps" or "shaded materials with maps", the maps are shown like circles if you have use some shaders, like ambient occlusion.

It looks like the texture shown in the viewport is just a capture of the preview on the material editor.

Cloning biped animation keys (shift+drag) often doesn't work properly, especially with Xtra bones. With multiple bones selected often only a single bone gets its keys cloned.