This is almost enough to make me quit modeling

[ExAm]

Okay, so today Wings started freaking out and stopped letting me pan the camera. I got fed up with it and for once tried following the Max tutorials I downloaded. It worked fine for a while, but just a minute ago all the menus, file, edit, etc. stopped working. I try to click them and they just show as clicked, and I can't get them to be unclicked. The menu doesn't even show up, and the materials window refuses to come up.

So I ask you, H2V,

What the hell? :mad:

[Reaper Man]

Get Maya. You can install it on your mac. :awesome:

[ExAm]

But my mac is slow :smith:

[Bodzilla]

well then install it on a PC.
:mysterysolved:

[ExAm]

BLIMEY HE'S RIGHT

E: I have more bars than zilla? :confused:

[Bodzilla]

BLIMEY HE'S RIGHT

E: I have more bars than zilla? :confused:
thats because your oh so sxc
http://forums.cyberslam.com.au/style_emoticons/default/pinkmeup.gif
shake it baby.

sooo. So hows Maya working out for ya?

[LlamaMaster]

Wait, so your problem is with max? I don't quite understand what your asking here, but whenever my max gets screwed up I just do this:

Customize>Custom UI and Defaults Switcher>Default UI>Set

Again, I'm not sure what your asking. >.>

[ExAm]

thats because your oh so sxc
http://forums.cyberslam.com.au/style_emoticons/default/pinkmeup.gif
shake it baby.

sooo. So hows Maya working out for ya?Not using maya. Every now and then Max gets hung up on a selection, and I can't deselect that selection, but so far the original problem hasn't popped up again. Yet.


Wait, so your problem is with max? I don't quite understand what your asking here, but whenever my max gets screwed up I just do this:

Customize>Custom UI and Defaults Switcher>Default UI>Set

Again, I'm not sure what your asking. >.>The problem was that none of the top menus worked, so I wouldn't have been able to do what you said. I had to restart my computer to get it working right again.

[Roostervier]

That happened to me once. I restarted max and the menu bar had disappeared. D:

But yeah, a reboot fixed it and it hasn't happened since.

[ExAm]

HEY HEY! NEW PROBLEMS!

For some unholy reason, Max decided to quantize vertex movement FOR THREE OR FOUR OF MY VERTS behind my back, and now they won't move anywhere but far away from their original position, and snap to select spots around the screen. Snaps aren't even turned on at all. I want this program to die >:U

E: Converting to editable mesh and then back to poly fixed it. Somehow. I must have hit some kind of hotkey for a function that isn't represented on any of the buttons :v

[Con]

Get Maya. You can install it on your mac. :awesome:
i agree with the bouncing boobies

[LlamaMaster]

HEY HEY! NEW PROBLEMS!

For some unholy reason, Max decided to quantize vertex movement FOR THREE OR FOUR OF MY VERTS behind my back, and now they won't move anywhere but far away from their original position, and snap to select spots around the screen. Snaps aren't even turned on at all. I want this program to die >:U

E: Converting to editable mesh and then back to poly fixed it. Somehow. I must have hit some kind of hotkey for a function that isn't represented on any of the buttons :v
I believe that your problem was with constraints. Theres a drop box under the editable poly tools, make sure it's set to "none".

[Patrickssj6]

99%, User Error.

[DaneO'Roo]

Yeah, and Maya prevents about 50 percent of that user error, where Max actually creates more chances of user error. I use both, and I have never in my life, ever had a "what the fuck?" moment in Maya, but in max, every 10 minutes is a what the fuck moment :downs:

Besides, I like using my uv editor to select faces/verts/edges to directly modify the geometry, in effect allowing me to unwrap a model while I model it.

You have no idea how easy it makes modeling sometimes. Being able to just open up your uv window, select a chunk of faces/verts/edges you were working on, minimizing the uv window and then directly doing stuff to those selections on the geometry.

Max is always having to be in some modifier, or some "Edit Mesh/Poly/****" mode. Basically 1 thing at a time. Theres nothign wrong with this, but Maya has a much faster more flexible workflow.

Maya, it's edit everything, all the time, but not all at once, only what you choose, yet still being able to multitask.

Theres nothing like finishing a model in maya, and then opening your texture editor to see that the model is almost practically fully unwrapped, just needs to be placed into order :awesome:

/rant

[Kalub]

I wish I had the IQ of 24232353534 to use Maya :(


Anyways, make sure you aren't pushing "spacebar" because that locks your selection.

[Zeph]

Yeah, and Maya prevents about 50 percent of that user error, where Max actually creates more chances of user error. I use both, and I have never in my life, ever had a "what the fuck?" moment in Maya, but in max, every 10 minutes is a what the fuck moment :downs:

It's quite the opposite for me and other people in my major. I've seen Maya swap control keys back and forth every ten or so minutes.

[Kalub]

Like I said, you need mindcontrol/superpowers/geniusIQ/18fingers to use it....

[ExAm]

I wish I had the IQ of 24232353534 to use Maya :(


Anyways, make sure you aren't pushing "spacebar" because that locks your selection.
In Wings, spacebar is deselect. I found out that I was hitting spacebar all the time :awesome: