max 2016 flakiness

[super gnu]

ive just made the jump to 2016 for a job where client is using the new physcam.. doesnt come back to 2014 very well ( my chosen version..) i also noticed a massive viewport speedup when scrubbing the timeline on my animated scene with 2016, so i thought id jump in.. i mean, its at sp3 so it should be pretty solid eh?



anyway im getting wierdness with window selection of scene objects in the viewport.. sometimes selects nothing, even if im trying to select 5000 objects.. then i try again..crash to desktop..

also, (although i didnt try since installing sp3) i noticed the scene explorer text selection seems broken? i have 1000 objects in my scene called "lamppost_xxx" so i go to the text selector and type "lamp" it filters down to 0 objects.


this is in the space of an hour or so of work.. i dread to think what other surprises are lurking in there.

back to 2014 for me!



-p.s. is there a script to convert standard max cams to the new physcam? if so i can give my scenes to client with standard cams and they can deal with the conversion without cursing me.

[JezUK]

For mostly the same reasons, I'm still on 2014. Each time I dare to use 2016 I end up regretting it ! A bit of a crazy situation imho (hopefully 2017 will be better )

[viscorbel]

I've been saying that to myself since 2009

hopefully 2017 will be better

[Syclone1]

I was using 2014 but made the jump to 2016 quite some time ago and for the most part I really like it, the only major thing that's a PITA for me is a problem with the sliders other than that no real problems at all.

[super gnu]

youre not having any selection issues (in viewport or via text filter?) odd that id have such an issue but others would not.. unlesss its scene specific.. although i cannot see how.

[Syclone1]

youre not having any selection issues (in viewport or via text filter?) odd that id have such an issue but others would not.. unlesss its scene specific.. although i cannot see how.

I do have an issue with trying to select objects in a scene that has sliders in it, where if the sliders are not hidden or frozen then it seems like they have an invisible selection area that spans the viewport horizontally making it very hard to select anything besides sliders. Ive reported this to AD a while back but no response at all yet from them. Also in scene explorer when using the text search as soon as I start typing the object list seems to just go blank but Ive noticed that I have to scroll up in the SE and my selection is there, which is also kind of annoying why it would do that.

ok so other than that haha no "major" problems

Here is a SS of the slider isssue, might help explain it better...

[gandhics]

Hmm... I have been on 2016 since last august. I have not seen the problem either.
For selection issue, you can try this

NitrousGraphicsManager.HardwareHitTestEnabled = false