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Inter face
Enable—Turn this on to display the specified proxy
object in the viewports. Turn off to display the
original XRef object. Note: If you turn this on
when no proxy object has been specified, the XRef
objectappearsintheviewportsasasmall,yellow
‘X.’
Use in R enderi ng—When this is on, the proxy
object is also displayed in the rendering. When off,
the original X Ref object is rendered.
File Name field—Sp ecify the path and file name of
the .
max scene containing the proxy object.
Path button—Click to display a file dialog from
which you can specify the .max scene containing
the proxy object.
Object Name fi eld—Specifies the name of the proxy
object in the specified scene.
Path button—Click to display a Merge dialog
listing the objects in the specified scene file. From
here, you can select an object to be used as the
proxy.
Missing XR ef Paths Dialog
File menu > Open > Open a file that references other
missing files.
IfyouloadorrenderascenewithXRefs,butthe
originally specified path of the XRef object or
scene can’t be found, or if the XRef object name
doesn’t match the object name in the source file,
an alert appears telling you t his. The alert works
inthesamewayasthemissingbitmapdialog,and
provides you with three options, described below.
Interfa ce
OK —Lets you open the file. The refere nced scene
will have placeholders, but will not exist in the
scene.
Can cel—Cancels when you are rendering. OK
and Cancel behave the same during file opening.
Whichever you choose, the file still opens and the
missing XRefs appear as red in the XRef Scenes
dialog.
Browse—Displays the XRefs p anel of the Configure
User Paths dialog, which you can use to specify the
correct file path. This lets you add, delete, modify,
and change the list position of the paths 3ds Max
uses to look for missing fi les.
This panel is identical to the one displayed by
choosingCustomize>ConfigureUserPaths>
XRefs (page 3–857) .
If this problem occurs during network rendering,
the dialog doesn’t appear, but the errors are written
to the network log file.