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GMAX Material Editor disappeared
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Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:12 pmby 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??
Re: GMAX Material Editor disappeared
Posted:
Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:56 pmby 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.
Re: GMAX Material Editor disappeared
Posted:
Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:07 amby 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
Re: GMAX Material Editor disappeared
Posted:
Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:08 pmby 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