Material Browser

[de-co1]

Hi All,

I have just returned to the 3D viz side of work after an 8 year absence, and am faced with 3dS Max 2012. There have been some changes, and in particular to the material browser. My issue is that this loads far too slow for some of the projects we have. It took half an hour for my latest drawing to open which I attribute to this issue, only because if I try and load a material library into an already open model I wait the same time.

I have noticed that when opening a material library from within a model this seems to default to showing Icons and Text.

Is there any way I can set this to default to text?

TIA

[loydg]

Welcome back to the Viz world! Yeah, a lot has changed in Max, and not all for the best. Although I understand the change in the Material Browser, it's not really set up for large bitmaps in the Civil world. So, there is a way to set your Material/Map Browser to show only text. It's not exactly intuitive.:

Select a Material Group and right click on it > Display Group (and SubGroups) As > Text

That should help. Also, you can turn off the Auto Update. That can take up some resources. I'm still looking for a way to return to the "classic" Material Browser. Call me an "Old Dog," But it worked efficiently and intuitively for me.

[de-co1]

I forgot I posted this. Thanks loydg