Hey there, I've been working on RPG5 for couple of weeks now but I've encountered a very frustrating problem with Max when working on two projects at the same time. on the ''secondary project'', it says something about corrupted autosave. then, if a day after I close the Main 3ds window(RPG5 BSP), about the last 15 saved copies from it are auto deleted, Right now I was working only 2 hours ago on RPG4_95. I go to my data folder, and the most recent is 87. All the o thers, that had been displaying for all the time i saved the other copies over many days, are gone.No trace of them in the trash, recent 3ds scenes or anything. Very annoying... is there a way to fix this? with the progress I had, I was expecting the BSP to be ready whitin 2 weeks but now, this draws me back from a week and I have to remake a complete section of the map....


any help avaible?

Edit: And Yes I exported the map many times, saw the saved file in the folder whens aving/exporting/importing.
Edited by OpsY on Feb 13, 2008 at 06:30 AM

It did it again this morning! I had spent bout 4 hours Remaking all it had deleted. The saved files WERE in the folder but when I rebooted my computer, alphas 87 to 102 were GONE.

back it up somewhere else than the max folder.
then the little expensive program will not have anything to delete.

Ugh.
UGH.
this shows you what 3,500 $ buys.
Glitch X 10 to the 10,000,000,000,000,000 power.
but, idk if max Nine does it. hmmm.. i still dont know. 3dsmax has its own cpu that spys on you and watches you back up things.
i dare you to put the file in a folder and rar the folder and password the RAR and see what happens then. 3dsmax 8 auto delete loopholes X 10

Max 9 sucks worst then 8 in my opinion, whenever you open it it gives me a loading DLL's error. Also, the default renderr (not pressing f9, just viewing in viewports) is DirectX and that can get quite buggy/laggy.

and theirs nothing to export (right?) from 3dsmax 9 to jms

Theres blustreak, but blitz is wayy better. Thats actually one of my probs atm, that bluestreak isn't exporting material librarys correctly.

Thing is yeah, I save directly in my Halo CE project folder... it doesn'T delete files I export but it does delete the original file which I need to be able to use to keep working... I'm looking at the folder right now and version 102 through 104 are there( i skipped the 90s since they had been deleted) let's see what happens if i close it now...looks fine but then again it doesn'T do it everytime so...it's done it 3 times in a month not sure if it happens more during rebootings or simply closing.. this time i'm working only with 1 3ds window opened so i havent got the autobak is corrupt error message

FYI The problem lies not with 3DS Max, and actually i've yet to find any real glitches/errors with the program, so dunno what u guys have encountered concerning bugs
Edited by Dhark on Feb 14, 2008 at 01:52 PM