Wondering if anyone can help. I lost that little red,blue, and green tripod "thingy" used to move things around in gmax. Now, I have to press each indivdual button on tool bar x, y, xy, z in order to move anything around. Also now, when I do move something, the image disappears and replaced with box representations of the model until I stop moving then the real model reappears. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I know about your red, blue, and green tripod object for moving things around. What you did is hit an axis constraint somehow (I still don't know how it's triggered). But here's what you do. You have to find the configuration file for 3DS Max which is located somewhere in the c:\Users\(name of the computer) folder. In there, there is a hidden folder, unfortunately I can't remember the name, but in that folder you'll find others that are related to 3DS Max and in one of them is the configuration file that is used whenever you load up 3DS. All you have to do is delete that file and you'll get a new default configuration file the next time you open 3ds.

Thanks for the help har, poked around...found the file gmax.ini....deleted it....seems to be working now...thanks again.

Wondering if anyone can help. I lost that little red,blue, and green tripod "thingy"

The Gizmo :-p
That's how they call it, bit like thingy :lol:

You can hide the gizmo by hitting the X key or was it W. Can't remember. But there's a key that makes in invisible. Not sure if there's any help files included with Gmax.

3Ds Max has an extensive help book included. Where you can look alll sorts of things, including El Gizmo.

Always reminds of this:
The fast show and El Gizmo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyEuJLEaMII)