PolyBoost Support

#41

Hi, all

I am using max 9 with polyboost demo verson,

I am trying to work with the symmetry Tool, andd i just cant get it to work,

i mean it works with the sphere(edit poly) fine, but when i am working with modeling i made,

it doesn’t work,

I am guessing it’s something wrong with my model,

but i don’t know what it is

is there something i have to be aware of when you are making model??

please help me out i really need it :slight_smile:

#42

Im new enough to max and i thought i might download the trial version of polyboost to help me with retopo work. There is very little documentation on it so ive been watching the videos on the polyboost website. It seems straight forward enough but i still dont get it completely. When I polydraw draw a grid with polytopo onto the surface of my obj model, as in the Polyboost2_video, I right click it to view the polygons that i created, but they show up as a single big shape with a white outline rather than a bunch of white quads like in the video. Can anyone help?

#43

Polydraw isn’t the most accurate of tools.It’s only really used as a starting point.You have to make sure the grid lines you draw cross over for Max to understand your intention.You might get 5 or 6 quads out of it to begin with and then pull out the 'oul border tool and flesh the geometry out.The border tool is superb.

Plus,if you’re upgrading to Max10 then PB is now part of the App in the form of the Graphite toolset.

#44

i have this trouble with poly draw it seams tht the area of effect of lets say connect is below the cursor, i see the cross but it selects vertex tow grid units below i have polyboost4.1 on max 9 on direct3d any idea whats happening? thanks

#45

“i have this trouble with poly draw it seams tht the area of effect of lets say connect is below the cursor, i see the cross but it selects vertex tow grid units below i have polyboost4.1 on max 9 on direct3d any idea whats happening?”

I am having problem too. It is hard to use the SwiftLoop and PolyBranch. I need to click several times to make the SwiftLoop to work and the PolyBranch always select the poly below the mouse cursor.

The problem just occur with max 9 (I update to sp2, but the problem continues).
In max 2009 everything is working fine.

#46

Sorry. i posted two times the same thing.
I do not know how to delete this post.

#47

small kick :blush:

hey guys, im trying to get my Polyboost instald on Vista home premium X86, now im getting in max the error that i need to run 3dsmax.exe as admin but i do that (also treid to set it to windows XPsp2. but i am still getting this error, has any 1 this experiance ?

thanks :slight_smile:

#48

bump:bounce:

#49

right click on the install file and select “Run As Administrator”…if that doesn’t help, you may try to disable U.A.C (google search how to do that), restart the PC and try again

#50

i have that 1 off by default :wink: (first thing i do after a Vista instaltion), thanks for the advie thoug, ive also e-mail Polyboost support saterday still no reply :frowning:

fixd:

ive send ta PM to our site member polygun who had the same isseu, here is the fix:

Move these files manually to these locations from the
3dsmax\Scripts\PolyBoost\Files folder:

3dsmax\Plugins\PBPolyBoost.dlx (or PBPolyBoost64.dlx for 64 bit max)
3dsmax\Scripts\Startup\PB_Startup.mse
3dsmax\stdplugs\stdscripts\PB_Startup_load.mse

Then restart 3ds max and run the setup once again

#51

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