Is this working for anyone else? I can’t seem to Load a saved preset in 1.0.5.44250
Presets will not load and Set Default… doesn’t seem to be respected. Creating a new Frost still creates the ‘default’ default object.

Yes my windows UAC is off

What I did:

Create Frost
Change Meshing to Metaballs
Save Preset “Default - Metaballs”
Deselect Frost
Select Frost
Click on Preset

Result = nothing

Create a new Frost
Click on Preset

Result = nothing

The .ini’s are written and contain the correct data. I tested the parameters I changed they work fine ($frost_001.meshingMethod=3)

I do see a bug related to presets.

I assume this used to work for you? Maybe it will work for different preset names, for example “Frost Preset” (with the capital letters, but without the quotes)?

In general, newly created presets appear to be working, except for several options like Change Scale with Age checkbox, Relative/Absolute Res. radio button, Absolute Spacing Render and Viewport values which are simply not saved to the INI file. Some don’t even appear on the list in the dialog (Velocity To Map Channel checkbox and channel #).

When I changed my settings to Metaballs and saved a preset, I could make it default and new Frost objects would start as Metaballs too.

Thanks, I’ll add those missing items.

The bug I noticed is related to preset names starting with things like a lower-case n or r (for curious programmers: I failed to escape a string).

The last time I played with presets, 9.x i believe, they did work for me.

I did notice it would not save a preset with the forward slash ‘/’

I did try some normal names like “Metaballs” no quotes, still didn’t work.

EDIT: It does not seem to be specific to max version, I tried on 2008, 2010. and 2011, all x64.

I will try this on my workstation when I get home too.