Clean preview

As we are already used to with autodesk software, it has loads of, ehm, let’s say, interesting “features” (some of us might call them bugs). One of those are the Label menus in Max 2010, which bring some cool functionality, but most of the time, well at least for me, they’re just plain annoying and as I’ve noticed today, especially when you’re making previews it’s in a way of the frame counter and there’s of course no button or checkbox to turn it off.

So if anyone is as annoyed by these the way I am and want’s to get rid of them when making previews, here’s a short script which does it for you. All it does, is that it turns off redrawing of the label menus, opens the preview dialog and then turns them back on again.

1 minute of googling, 5 minutes of MaxScript help and here we go. But seriously I think this could be easily implemented straight into eg. preview dialog box. But I understand…. Guys in Autodesk just want to keep us entertained at all times.

macroScript CleanPreview category:”Mini Tools” toolTip:”Make Clean Preview”
(
viewportbuttonMgr.EnableButtons = false
max preview
viewportbuttonMgr.EnableButtons = true
)

just open a new script, paste the code, evaluate it (ctrl+E), and then assign it a shortcut, quad menu item or whatever UI item you want in Customize User Interface. You’ll find it under Mini Tools category, but if you fancy different name, just change the “category” parameter in a script.