3dsmax 2017

[pixelplume]

what section of the area forums is best to post complaints?
- display drivers crashes things a bunch and I wind up working in "clay" mode most of the time
- sometimes it will not render the current view.....It get's stuck on "render last" until I restart max

[glorybound]

AMEN! I have been complaining about the checkerboard from hell, so I have to work in clay mode, for a couple months now. Here's mine rant:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-ma...482080#M116854

[pixelplume]

thanks for the link....I added to it

[coolhand78]

For Archiviz guys is there any advantage to moving to 2017 (now that SP2 is out) from 2016?
Is it faster? Better viewport performance? Is there anything in it that you think is worth making the jump apart from just having the current version?

[Vizioen]

I don't have it but the only thing I can think of is that Vray has IPR in the nightlies in 2017.

[mitviz]

Whats IPR?

[Ihno]

Whats IPR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK2eYCaMkI0

For Archiviz guys is there any advantage to moving to 2017 (now that SP2 is out) from 2016?
Is it faster? Better viewport performance? Is there anything in it that you think is worth making the jump apart from just having the current version?

Actually the viewport performance is better. But there is a serious bug that might break your workflow; Select by Material isn't working (yet). At least not here...

[glorybound]

I am using a scriptthat replaces Select by Material, which works exactly the same. It's a Soulburn script.

[rikou]

Actually the viewport performance is better. But there is a serious bug that might break your workflow; Select by Material isn't working (yet). At least not here...

Is it really broken ?? I mean select the hardware still does not work ????

it's crazy !!! Soulburn script as a great tool but it's more than that !! use it as "a dressing on the wounds" of 3ds max 2017 is not a solution....

[Ihno]

I am using a scriptthat replaces Select by Material, which works exactly the same. It's a Soulburn script.

Ah, cool. I installed them recently but didnt had the time to dive into yet.

Is it really broken ?? I mean select the hardware still does not work ????

Yes, actually it does nothing. At least it dosnt crash max. I think we should be happy about that^^

[jstrob]

I just tested select by material and it's not working here either.

I had many bugs with max plugins and for sure state sets but many of them have been solved since or at least improved. for example RPManager was not working anymore because of a checkbox that was frozen but it now works but still have some display and slowness problem. Since that was the most important part of my pipeline I couldn't use max 2017 because of that so now I have to test the other plugins one by one or wait until someone test them before me.

As soon as everything works for me in 2016 I will stay with it.

[glorybound]

I still can't display in anything other than clay. If I want to see my materials, too bad so sad, it crashes. I am not sure of the MAX 2017 adoption rate, but others are having the same problem. Having said that, it could be my card or my 4K monitor. It could also be MAX, I don't know. I have been stumbling through my projects in the dark.

[jstrob]

Hi Bobby, have you tried another display driver in: Customize=>Preferences...=>Viewports=>Display Drivers=>Choose Driver...

I have a ZOTAC geforce GTX 1080 and it works with default Nitrous.

[glorybound]

I did, but nothing worked. I have been working with the guys over on the Autodesk Support Forum, but nothing so far has worked.

[rikou]

With each new version, like many of us, I wait for SP and see what happens .... but with 2017 I am a little scared! sp2 was released last month and there are still many big really annoying bugs !!