Small Annoying Things
PURPOSE
This forum is about all the little annoying quirks and problems in 3ds Max that you might have gotten used to over the years but that might benefit from a second look.
Remember, keep these ideas to tweaks of the workflow rather than large, sweeping changes to the tools. Try to imagine how much effort a programmer has to go into in order to implement your suggestion. Anything requiring major UI changes or new UI dialogs will need to go in another forum.
Feature ideas considered too big will simply be moved to the General Feature Requests forum; suggestions for new defaults should go into the Default Settings forum.
Add your vote to any idea if you also think this is an annoying behavior that needs to be fixed.
HOW TO USE THE FORUM
- Each user has 20 votes for each forum
- Each idea can have no more than 3 votes by a single user
- If you enter an idea, it will cost you 1 vote – therefore try to make sure the idea doesn’t already exist
- The more precise and detailed a description you give, the more likely your idea will rise higher in the list
- When an idea is implemented, votes are returned to all the users that voted
- User can change their votes at any time
- Admins can move, edit and delete ideas as they see fit to better meet the goals of the forum
- We will flag ideas that are getting our attention as “under review”. Because of limits on what we can say publicly, that is as far as we can go with commenting on a particular idea. If it is “under review” it simply means we’re studying it for possible implementation or gathering data, but there is no commitment to do it.
Remember, we do not release versions on “internet time”. Unlike the web sites this was designed for, our process of releasing functionality is much longer term. So there won’t be a constant churn of ideas being “closed out” by us and votes returned to you. For this tool to map to our process, we will be looking at the data during a short period of the year (3-6 months) and deciding what actions to take after that. Don’t expect to post an idea and a month later for us to respond in some fashion to it. The most likely scenario is that you’ll post an idea and if a lot of other people vote on it, we’ll eventually flag it as “under review” – but that could be 9 months later or longer.
Please treat this as an experiment in working with the community. Even if Uservoice is not the final home for this, we’ll do our best to export all the ideas to whatever future system might take its place. Your voice will persist.
Note: It’s important to realize that these lists are simply raising the quality of the feedback we get from the community. They are not a replacement for how we define the features for any given release. They are valuable input, but beta input, product strategy, focus, innovation and other factors are also important aspects we consider.
BUGS
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http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax-DefectSubmission
AVAILABLE PUBLIC FORUMS
Default Settings
Please tell us which user defaults settings you change the most! Enter a description of the default or ini setting and then see how the community votes on it. Remember these are only the user preferences you can either set in the interface or ini files.
General Feature Requests
Please help us collect ideas for new features and general product enhancements. What’s on your top ten list? Add a vote to any idea you also think is important!
Small Annoying Things
This forum is about all the little annoying quirks and problems in 3ds Max that you might have gotten used to over the years but that really should be fixed.
Remember, keep these ideas to tweaks of the workflow rather than large, sweeping changes to the tools. Try to imagine how much effort a programmer has to go into in order to implement your suggestion. Anything requiring major UI changes or new UI dialogs will need to go in another forum.
SDK/Scripting Enhancements
This forum is about improvements to the SDK or Script-related.
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"import" and "merge" should be the same button
"import" and "merge" do essentially the same thing, just for different file formats. There should just be one option, and it should work correctly based on what kind of file you point it at.
34 votes -
Save as Previous Should Have a 'Stick' Option
When saving to previous is frequently used there should be an option for the user to make this the default for the file. This would probably be in the form of a simple tick box. This option would only be for that file.
17 votes -
No incremental save option in File Menu
Every app I use has a file -> Save Increment or file -> Save New Version or some variation on that theme. Instead I have to go File -> Save as -> "+"
Saving new versions should be encouraged and accessible.
7 votes -
New File dialog should include Keep/Discard Material Editor contents.
Whenever I click File > New and choose New All I usually don't want my Material Editor full of all the materials used in my previous scene. Although I can think of scenarios that it might be useful, generally speaking I'd rather enjoy a Clean Slate (sorry for the bad pun...).
So there should be another option (a checkbox?) to keep the existing material library (and that should default to off) whenever you have a scene open and click New File.
The problem is if I am working on a scene with a really heavy material system (dozens of materials…
6 votes -
Importing a 3ds model when objects are named the same | add a rename, ignore naming, apply to all etc...
When importing 3ds files if the objects in the scene are named the same then you have to manually click skip or merge for every single object with the same name. If there can be a skip or merge all that would help similar to how you can merge from one file to the next.
4 votes -
No image preview when opening very large images
The Image File Open dialog should be a little smarter about showing the preview image. If a file size is larger than X MB, it should not try to display the thumbnail, as this can take a really long time on highres HDR data, for example, and there is very little use to the thumbnail in those cases anyway.
3 votes -
Summary info's "Description" text area, should handle a lot more text.
Currently it handles roughly <950 characters, and cuts off any text you add after that, without warning!
It's a great feature for logging changes as you progress to a finished file. Invaluable for finding out what someone did in the past. Important notes etc.3 votes -
Let the welcome screen/recent files check for newer .max file versions.
If you open a recent file from the welcome screen or file menu (for example "Model 005.max"), there's no way to know if this file is the most recent. If a coworker saved "Model 006.max", you will be working in an old file. This can easily be fixed by checking for newer files (by version number) and adding an icon (like !) or some other kind of warning to the recent file name dialog.
3 votes -
Keep TGA/TIFF saving preferences with File.
Keep TGA/TIFF saving preferences with File. Sometimes the save dialog doesn't remember what settings were used, 24bit/32bit etc.. and reverts to what you last used rather than per file basis.
1 vote
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