GMAX Material Editor disappeared

[rhole]

The Materials Editor button no longer brings up the Materials Editor box.  It used to work for me.  I have re-installed GMAX 1.2 and tried to access this using the tutorial on materials as well as my own project files.  Any suggestions how I can get this function back??

[Travis]

2 questions:

1. What happens when you click the icon in the upper-right corner of the display?

2. What happens when you hit the "M" key?

Be specific so we can figure it out for ya.

[Firestriker]

Look in your gmax.ini files. There is usually one in the main C:\gmax directory and in each gamepack subdirectory. Open it with a text editor like notepad and look for a line like this:

[MtlEditorPosition]
MainWindow=7 70 368 456

Replace the current values with the ones marked here in red and save the file. Restart gMax and see if the Material Editor is back in a normal position. If so, close gMax and make a copy of these gmax.ini files and name them something like gmax.ini.restore. Now if it hapens again you can restore the corrupt gmax.ini file with the backup file.

Lou

[rhole]

That was it, the gmax.ini material edit position was WAY off screen.  I use two monitors, and have also noticed that GMAX pan feature has a two monitor bug.  You MUST run GMAX  from the primary monitor and that monitor must be configured on the left of the second monitor.

Great help guys, thanks 100,000' worth !  :D