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See also
3rd Party Plug-Ins Path Configuration (page 3–814)
Inter face
When you start the Plug-in Manager, it scans
through all the plug-in paths specified in the
plugin.ini file and lists them in the Plug-in
Manager dialog. The information is divided up
into columns as descr ibed below.
Tag—Use the right-click menu and select T ag
Selected to add a check mark for selected plug-ins.
Tagging plug-ins lets you perform right-click
menu actions on t hem. Thus you can tag multiple
plug-ins and per form a single operation on all of
them.
Name—Thefilenameoftheplug-in.
Description—A description of the plug-in.
Status—Indicates whether the plug-in is loaded
(green) or deferred ( yellow).
Size—File size of the plug-in.
Full Pat h—The disk location of the plug-in file.
Plug-in Directories
These are the plug-in directories listed in
plugin.ini. You can also configure these paths via
the 3rd Party Plug-Ins panel (page 3–814) of the
Configure U ser Paths dialog. You can display or
hide all the plug-ins in a d irectory by toggling the
check box.
Descr iption—Shows director y description from
plugin.ini file.
Loa d Path —The path of the plug-in directory.
Right-Click Menu
The right-click menu for the Plug-in Manager
works in t he list of plug-ins, and in the blank area
beneath the list. It does not work in the list of
plug-in directories. The commands apply to two
possible states for the listed plug-ins: selec ted (that
is, high lig hted) and tag ged (a check mark appears
to the lef t of the plug-in’s name).
Selected Plug-ins—To load plug-ins, highlight
oneormoreplug-ins,choosethisitem,andthen
choose Load.
Clear S election—Removes hig h lig hting f rom all
items in the list.
Tagged Plug-ins—To load t agged plug-ins, choose
this item, and then choose Load.
Tag Selected—Tags all highlighted plug-ins.
Cle ar Tag s—Clears all tags.
Load New Plug-in—L oads a plug-in from the hard
drive. Use the file dialog to locate the plug-in, and
then click Open.
Refresh V iew—Refreshes the list of plug-ins.
Custom UI and Defaults Switcher
Customize menu > Custom UI and Defaults Switcher
Artistsanddesignersindifferentindustriesuse
3ds Max in different ways. The Custom UI and
Defaults Sw itcher lets you quickly change your
program defaults and UI scheme to more closely
match the t ype of work you are doing.
The Initial settings for tool options control the
defaultsettingsforvariousfeaturesin3dsMax,