GGMax Enhancement - Something Better Than Zones!

[OldFlak]

Although this is a request, I would consider it a much needed BUG fix. Simply put, and in as nice a way as possible, Zones are terrible to work with, unless - for the most-part - you leave them the same shape and size when dropping them into the editor.

Issues I have found when customizing them 👍

• deleting nodes (after adding more) tis easy to delete one that causes the whole zone to be deleted
• cannot select nodes when near, and especially when on top of models - you have to move the model first!
• often find that after deleting a node, and then saving progress, causes MAX to crash to desktop

More useful defaults:

• only have four nodes. Never found a need for 5 nodes, if you need more than 4 it is always more than 5
• nodes should always stay at same level as the center bit. They do weird stuff because they don't (see pic Weapon shader not affected by changes with surface lighting slider #1)

Points Of Weirdness (01)

To make it easy to see how non-intuitive zones can be, try this simple exercise:

• place a large platform in the air at a height of 1000
• place a zone on top
• now move the nodes to the extremity of the plate form

In short zones are just not a quality component of MAX - he really deserves something better.

Thanks for considering.

PS I closed #5510 as it appears to be overlooked, it was on the same topic, but wanted to add more details :)