How do I restore my General Viewport Labels?

[Michael J. Brown]

I've lost the label display on two of my viewports over the past several weeks (probably from inadvertently hitting the wrong shortcut keys), and can't seem to find how to get them back.

 

Can anyone provide some assistance?

 

[James Vella]

which max version?

Edited January 12, 2017 by redvella

[Michael J. Brown]

2011 Design

[Josef Wienerroither]

there is only one maxscript command for this for all viewports:

 

ViewportButtonMgr.EnableButtons

 

the above would tell you wether they are enabled or not

The following would turn them on

 

ViewportButtonMgr.EnableButtons=true

 

As far i remember, the pre-Nitrous ( direct3d) viewports of older Max versions suffered from such glitches sometime, when you had some very demanding textures displayed in the viewport, or geometry with broken or messy UV coordinates. If this is on an empty scene, i can't imagine why that should happen.

If it's with a certain scene ( or object in the viewport) check all UV channels and materials on that object. There is a chance that the materials are the cause or this...

 

EDIT: what i've written above would only cause COMPLETE disappearance of the label. only missing the viewport type label is certainly very very strange. I would try to close Max and rename the 3dsmax.ini file ( which sits in the Max root folder with 3ds Max 2011) and check viewport labels again

Edited January 14, 2017 by spacefrog

[Michael J. Brown]

Thanks much, Josef. That did the trick!