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GMAX Material Editor disappeared (Read 188 times)

Jun 14^th, 2006 at 9:12pm

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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?? ???

Rick

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Reply #1 - Jun 14^th, 2006 at 10:56pm

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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.

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Reply #2 - Jun 15^th, 2006 at 8:07am

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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

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Reply #3 - Jun 15^th, 2006 at 7:08pm

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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 ! Cheesy

Rick

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