Max 2012 viewport texture smoothing

[Andrew75]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a way to Disable texture smoothing in the viewports of Max 2012. I've got some pretty small textures that I'm using for reference on planes and i need to retain there blocky ( pixelated) look and feel.

[Pablo Ferro]

Well you could disable Nitro and go back to Direct3d Hardware Shading....

[Pablo Ferro]

... with raw Direct3d you can make some configurations for your textures like the texture resolution.

But I think there is a trick.

Mulitply the size of your texture image in Photoshop or something ( that raises the number of pixels) so 3ds Max does less smoothing on your texture :D

This may work.

[Andrew75]

Thanks man,
i think its a real shame we can't have so much control over these things in such an expensive program.
( Edit: actually this is what i was looking for, thought they removed it)

[Pablo Ferro]

Yup. I tossed away my 2012 trial and kept with my beloved 2011. The Nitrous viewport was a little bit of a scam and a deception for me :(

[poopipe]

Nitrous is fricking awesome if you have a gtx580, less so on older cards.

Whichever way you look at it though, it still performs ten times better than 2011

[Pablo Ferro]

Don´t get me wrong. Nitrous has been the best view port improvement since years but I feel my 2012 x64 trial had some serious bugs with my rig (vanishing objects, translation errors,material editor loading slow as s***) . Maybe just because I have an over-clocked video card and my hard drive is years old.

I definitely ´ll try the corrections in the Service pack.

But I´m not upgrading until I´m convinced this works flawlessly on my rig.

[poopipe]

i wouldn't have gone to 2012 if I'd had a choice but the new job came with new software.

post hotfix its usable (hotfix will install on the demo), the owrst viewport errors i get at work are flipped normals on objects you have made an instance of and that goes away when they're selected.

service pack is out now - I've not installed it yet due to still being halfway through a project but it sounds positive (if they've admitted to that many bugs, imagine how many they've actually fixed)bugs

[Pablo Ferro]

Haha that´s true.