3D Studio Max Problem (file corruption?)

Phyre · 24 Apr 2008 at 12:16

I saved a scene last night, and went to access it this morning and it's totally screwed up. The object I'm drawing looks like it's had a hammer put to it repeatedly... This is quite annoying as I've been working on this model quite a while. I went to the folder it's saved to and the little preview on the left shows the model as it should be (ie how I saved it). Any ideas what's going on and how to fix it??

I have about 7 saves of different stages of this model and every one of them that shows the head (I'm building a character) with a nose is "corrupted". And the backups are all the same. Every save shows exactly the same.

5ingh · 24 Apr 2008 at 17:38

By backups, do you mean the auto-backup files?

Do you have a screenshot of the model?

Phyre · 24 Apr 2008 at 18:49

Yeah, the auto backups.

I have a screenshot of the little preview that comes up in Windows explorer when I navigate to the file. Other than that, no. Why?

NokkonWud · 24 Apr 2008 at 19:03

You could search for a program that can export a .max file to a .3DS or so automatically (without you opening it) and see if that helps.
I'd also re-install 3D Studio Max as that doesn't sound right (for all your files to be corrupting automatically).