Default Settings
PURPOSE
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. Other requests will be considered a feature request and moved to either the Small Annoying Things or General Feature Requests.
Please be clear which version you are using, 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design, since they have different defaults.
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.
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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Change the Path Constraint percent controller from Linear Float to Bezier Float by default.
Objects controlled by a path constraint have unrealistic linear keys by default. A lot of people don't even know this can be changed. A bezier float makes the path movement much more natural.
84 votes -
22 votes
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Default time range should be from 0-99
The default render time range goes from 0 to 100, producing 101 frames. That's confusing to many users and has caused discussions for years. I suggest changing that to 0-99 to clearly indicate what's going on. Alternatively, we could do 1-100, but that might cause problems with people expecting the first key on frame zero?
21 votes -
24 frames per second as default
Since most TV and Film is 24 fps these days, that should be the default rather than 30.
11 votes -
9 votes
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Visibility Track Default = On in Curve Editor/Dope Sheet
It's clumsy to have to create a visibility track in the Dope Sheet of the Curve Editor, then add keys to it. Visibility tracks should be active for all renderable objects, and should be always visible in both the Dope Sheet and the Curve Editor unless specifically hidden. A floating window/tool that allows you to animate visibility for selected objects (like the Viz Animator script) would be great.
3 votes -
0 votes
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