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General Preferences 817
Display Cross Ha ir Cursor —
Displays the mouse
cursor as full-viewport cross hairs, vertical and
horizontal lines extending the full extent of the
active viewport.
Each mov ement of the mouse is redrawn, so the
cross hairs are relatively slow. If you want to create
akeyboardshortcut,findCrossHairCursortoggle
in Customize menu > Custom ize User Interface
> Keyboard panel and specify the keys to use for
the shortcut. If you want to change the color of the
cross-hairs cursor, Customize menu > Customize
User Interface > Colors panel > View ports > Cross
Hair Cursor and use the color selector to change
the cursor color.
Display Topology Dependence War ning—Tur ns of
the topology dependence warning. A warning is
displayed if an object has modifiers and sub-object
selections, and you choose to edit a modifier or
the base object at the bottom of the modifier stack,
which can adversely affect the object’s topology.
You can also turn off the warning in the warning
dialog. Default=on.
Display Stack Collapse Warning—Turns off the
stack collapse warning. A warning is displayed if
an object has modifiers and sub-object select ions,
and you choose to delete a modifier, which can
adversely affect the object’s topology. You can
also turn off the warning in the warning dialog.
Default=on.
Save UI Configuration on Exit—Restores panels and
toolbars to the positions they were in the last time
you used the software. Turn this off to restore
panels to the state they were in prior to turning
on this option.
Use L arge Toolbar B uttons—Toggles between large
and small toolbar buttons.
Horizontal Text in Ver tical Toolbar—Ensures text
buttons are displayed horizontally.
If you create a custom toolbar positioned vertically,
and you’re using text rather than image buttons,
you can choose to display either horizontal or
vertica l text with this option.
Fixed Wi d t h Text Bu tton —Specifies the maximum
width of text buttons.
You must turn on the Horizontal Text in Vertica l
Toolbar option, turn this option on, and then set a
maximum display size for the text button in pixels.
For custom vertical toolbars with text buttons, this
option will limit the size of the text display.
Fly ou t Time —Sets the pause, in milliseconds,
between the mouse click and the flyout popping
up from the button. Increase this setting only if
you need an extra-long delay. Don’t decrease the
setting much or you may not be able to execute
button commands before the flyout takes over.
Co lor Selector—Choose the default color selector
(page 1–161),orathird-partyplug-incolor
selector in the list. The color selector you choose
here is used throughout 3ds Max whenever you
specify a color.
Plug-In Loading group
Load Pl ug-Ins When Used—When tur ned on, loads
plug-ins on demand, when they are needed.
Sub-Materials group
Assign Automatica lly—Enables the automatic
creation of a M ulti/Sub-Object material when you
assign a material to a selection of face sub-objects
in an editable object. Default=on.
When on, the assi gned material b ecomes part
of the new Multi/Sub-Object material, and is
assignedtothefaceselection. Whenoff,the
assigned material is assigned to the entire object.
Note: Ifthefaceselectioncomprisesfaceswith
different material IDs, assigned a material to the
selection with Assign Automatically turned on
results in the software assigning the first unused
material ID to all selected faces, thus changing
their IDs.