Max 2012 viewport texture smoothing

Andrew75 · 15-06-2011, 12:33 AM

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 · 15-06-2011, 12:40 AM

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

Pablo Ferro · 15-06-2011, 12:45 AM

... 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

This may work.

Andrew75 · 15-06-2011, 12:52 AM

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 · 15-06-2011, 01:01 AM

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 · 25-06-2011, 02:37 PM

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 · 25-06-2011, 03:02 PM

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 · 25-06-2011, 03:25 PM

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 · 25-06-2011, 04:27 PM

Haha that´s true.

15-06-2011, 12:33 AM	#1
Andrew75 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 40 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Max 2012 viewport texture smoothing 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.

15-06-2011, 12:40 AM	#2
Pablo Ferro Because that´s my name. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Bogotá, Colombia Posts: 486 Thanks: 1 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	Well you could disable Nitro and go back to Direct3d Hardware Shading.... __________________ \| TITANUS™ \| Asus KGP D16 Server \| 2 x 8 core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron 6128\| 8 GB ddr3 \| ATI Radeon 6970 2GB ddr5 \| 60 GB SSD\| \| x64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate \| Maxwell Render 2.5.1 \| Mental Ray 3.7 \| 3d Studio Max 2011 \|

15-06-2011, 12:45 AM	#3
Pablo Ferro Because that´s my name. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Bogotá, Colombia Posts: 486 Thanks: 1 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	... 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 This may work. __________________ \| TITANUS™ \| Asus KGP D16 Server \| 2 x 8 core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron 6128\| 8 GB ddr3 \| ATI Radeon 6970 2GB ddr5 \| 60 GB SSD\| \| x64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate \| Maxwell Render 2.5.1 \| Mental Ray 3.7 \| 3d Studio Max 2011 \| Last edited by Pablo Ferro; 15-06-2011 at 12:48 AM..

15-06-2011, 12:52 AM	#4
Andrew75 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 40 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	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) Last edited by Andrew75; 15-06-2011 at 12:54 AM..

15-06-2011, 01:01 AM	#5
Pablo Ferro Because that´s my name. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Bogotá, Colombia Posts: 486 Thanks: 1 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	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 __________________ \| TITANUS™ \| Asus KGP D16 Server \| 2 x 8 core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron 6128\| 8 GB ddr3 \| ATI Radeon 6970 2GB ddr5 \| 60 GB SSD\| \| x64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate \| Maxwell Render 2.5.1 \| Mental Ray 3.7 \| 3d Studio Max 2011 \|

25-06-2011, 02:37 PM	#6
poopipe conscientious objector Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: cambridge, uk Posts: 4,234 Thanks: 3 Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 9	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

25-06-2011, 03:02 PM	#7
Pablo Ferro Because that´s my name. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Bogotá, Colombia Posts: 486 Thanks: 1 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	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. __________________ \| TITANUS™ \| Asus KGP D16 Server \| 2 x 8 core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron 6128\| 8 GB ddr3 \| ATI Radeon 6970 2GB ddr5 \| 60 GB SSD\| \| x64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate \| Maxwell Render 2.5.1 \| Mental Ray 3.7 \| 3d Studio Max 2011** \|

25-06-2011, 03:25 PM	#8
poopipe conscientious objector Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: cambridge, uk Posts: 4,234 Thanks: 3 Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 9	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 __________________ work pigs!! http://johnsarthole.blogspot.com/

25-06-2011, 04:27 PM	#9
Pablo Ferro Because that´s my name. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Bogotá, Colombia Posts: 486 Thanks: 1 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	Haha that´s true. __________________ \| TITANUS™ \| Asus KGP D16 Server \| 2 x 8 core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron 6128\| 8 GB ddr3 \| ATI Radeon 6970 2GB ddr5 \| 60 GB SSD\| \| x64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate \| Maxwell Render 2.5.1 \| Mental Ray 3.7 \| 3d Studio Max 2011 \|

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