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Jun 17th, 2005 at 11:24pm

Moach   Offline
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hi again...

now that i've moved i have space to put my 2 monitors side by side...

now i want to know if there is a way to have Gmax display on both of them

i tried to do it myself, but without any good results, so if anyone has managed it, please tell me Wink

i wanted to have the perspective view on the main screen and the tools and other views on the other, but i couldn't find a way to do this properly

c ya

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Reply #1 - Jun 25th, 2005 at 11:34pm

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If you have Windows XP, you have it in not the maximized position, but the other one, that you can stretch...then just drag it over to the other window...
 
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Reply #2 - Jun 26th, 2005 at 7:25pm

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that is what i tried to do... but Gmax doesn't seem to remember the screen layout when you close and open it again

i tried using the "save UI layout" function but it didn't work

what i wanted to know was if gmax already had some sort of 2 monitor layout mode or something, but i'm guessing it doesn't...

anyways, now i have it set in a way i like... i have the main gmax screen on the first monitor, and all "popup" screens, like the material editor, navigator and UVW unwrap screens in the secondary one...

this way i never have to close them down, which makes everything much more efficient

thanks anyways for the help...

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Reply #3 - Jun 27th, 2005 at 10:46am

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Configure your layout
like you want it (UI, Windows on second monitor,
unit setup) and than just save your scene as gmaxstart.gmax .. now max will open this scene by default everytime you start it. It should cover everything.. incl.
windows on a second monitor objects you place in your scene and so on (I only have experience with 3dsmax
but 'I´m 99,9% shure it works with gmax as well).
If you reopen the scene.. don´t wonder the popup´s
like materail editor will be closed by default.. but
as soon as you open them again they should be in the right position on your second screen
There are some windows that cannot be fixed to a position.. like the trackview and I think also
the unwrap uvw window.

Take care.. if you turn off your second monitor or you change your gfx card for some reason .. 3dsmax btw. also Gmax does not automatically pull those windows
back to your primary window. So if you ever work on one monitor and a window is missing delete you gmax.ini file
in the root folder. Deleting the gmax.ini is nearly like a reinstall.. it completely resets max.. you can use it
to eliminate a lot of max specific problems that occur from time to time. If you have a customized  ui.. you should
save it as ui file.. or this will be reset, too.

cheers


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