"Name That Toggle"

[Michael J. Brown]

Okay, I'm absolutely stomped. I just had my machine re-imaged and am restoring all my preferences and settings.

 

Yes, I'm a seasoned veteran, but for the life of me I cannot find the toggle (or perhaps some .ini default) that controls whether or not Max assigns unique colors to each successive scene object created. I never had to do anything in the past to get it to make each object a unique color. But now everything is getting assigned one monochromatic color.

 

I know there's a simple solution. Can someone help me out here? (I'm using Max 2008, btw)

[Sawyer]

Create a box (any obj will do)

Click on the color swatch of that box

Click on the "assign random colors" box.

 

Should do it

[Matt McDonald]

I've had that same problem only for a lot longer than a day or two! Checking the assign random color does no good. Any other suggestions?

[Chad Warner]

Create a box (any obj will do)

Click on the color swatch of that box

Click on the "assign random colors" box.

 

Should do it

 

Works for me, but I had to double click on the color swatch for the box.

[Michael J. Brown]

Create a box (any obj will do)

Click on the color swatch of that box

Click on the "assign random colors" box.

 

Should do it

 

 

No dice.

 

This was the first thing I looked at. And for each item I create, the "Assign Random Colors" box is already checked.

[Michael J. Brown]

Okay, I pinpointed the reason why this is happening. It's because I'm using the DesignVIZ UI default settings, which forces all newly drawn object's colors to correspond to the current layer - regardless of the toggle within the Object Color UI.

 

To re-enable the random color assignments, go to the General tab within Preferences and uncheck Default to By Layer for New Nodes.

[Matt McDonald]

That's awesome! Thanks man!