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.

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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.

How can we improve the default settings (ini tweaks) for Autodesk 3ds Max & 3ds Max Design?

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  1. metric units meter as default

    What do you think on making Metric Units a default?

    The Metric System is a global reality.
    Why should still one unit equal an inch instead of centimeters?
    Why shouldn’t display unit (and consistently all over the software) be a Meter?

    I believe most visualization people would prefer that, since most people live in areas where Meters are the standard, and also a lot of games people since most engines are using meters as units.

    Also mentalRay if i am not mistaken is based around metric system and possibly massFX as well?

    284 votes
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    17 comments  ·  General preferences  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  2. Shift + Drag a poly should extrude. like it does for edges. NOT make a new poly.

    Shift + Drag a poly should extrude. like it does for edges. NOT make a new poly.

    Softimage has this. Think of all the times you have to go click the extrude or press Shift + E then click and drag, then click back to move/select another edge.

    Speed up workflow!

    238 votes
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    20 comments  ·  Main UI  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  3. Q = Select Object only (no cycle)

    Q should default to Select Object, not Smart Select Object. One thing that happens to newbies a lot, is that they hit Q several times, which changes the selection mode from Rectangle to Lasso or Spray, and then they don't know how/why it happened.

    166 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Hotkeys  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  4. switch the spacebar hotkey

    switch the spacebar hotkey (lock) to something more productive, like a maximize viewport (alt+W). like maya I think. or switch to show all textures on all objects with lights

    125 votes
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  5. Multi/sub material, all A&D when mentalray is default

    when mr is default renderer, all multi materials should default to A&D materials

    98 votes
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    4 comments  ·  Material Editor & Materials  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  6. 93 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Rendering  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  7. Higher Undo Count

    More undo levels than 20

    89 votes
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    8 comments  ·  General preferences  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  8. 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
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    7 comments  ·  Animation  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  9. Default Viewport Clipping to "Infinity"

    Working extremely close on vertices, whether the object is large or small can be difficult because of viewport clipping. Portions of the mesh appear to disappear. Leaving the clipping to the max and min values eliminates this issue and should be default.

    81 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Viewport & Display Settings  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  10. Default light drop-down should be Standard, not Photometric.

    Default Create Light drop-down should be Standard, not Photometric (at least in 3ds max, not 3ds max Design.) Unless I'm specifically doing architectural visualization, I never use photometric lights.

    73 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Lights  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  11. 73 votes
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    1 comment  ·  General preferences  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  12. Better render resolution presets

    The 'Output Size' presets currently used in the rendering dialog are old/incorrect/badly named/not useful. Someone should get a copy of the cinematographer handbook (or make a poll) and enter updated resolutions/aspects.

    72 votes
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    under review  ·  6 comments  ·  Rendering  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  13. Statistics: Count selection

    The viewport statistics should show the count of the current selection by default. If you need Total statistics, a single Ctrl-A will do it.

    71 votes
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  14. SelectByNameUsesSceneExplorer = 0

    Brings back the old SBN

    70 votes
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    0 comments  ·  INI  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
  15. add iteration settings to "make preview" dialog

    Ambient Occlusion is very bad in "makr preview". Add Iterations settings to make preview dialog for setup quality of AO.

    62 votes
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  16. Edged Faces Selected

    Instead of the selection bracket, use Display Selected with Edged Faces

    55 votes
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  17. Default Scale of Procedural Maps in material editor should be 50

    Default scale in the material editor should look similar to the viewport/render!

    http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=954076

    See Bobo's response on this subject.

    49 votes
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  18. 46 votes
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  19. 45 votes
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  20. Group commands in Quad Menu (Open, Close, Detach etc..)

    I always add the group actions to my Quad Menu first thing.

    41 votes
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