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Cleaning PhysX Menu Duplicates

By AdverSoftware · Credited author: Fred Moreau · 2011-02-23

Version
1.00
Version requirement
3dsMax 2008 and above
Date updated
2011-02-23
Votes
13
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Description

If you customize your UI a bit and have installed the "3dsMax 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack" or the NVidia PhysX utility for 3dsMax, you should notice that it adds menus to the Customize Dialog every time you run 3dsMax. In a month or so, you will probably have to scroll over a thousand duplicates in the Customize Menus Dialog.

I had a quick look in the PhysX MaxScript files, but I don't want to mess with it. Instead, I made this simple script, that will remove all PhysX menus when 3dsMax shuts down. Don't worry, they'll be added again next time you start.

You can run it once, but I recommend putting it in the following location so that it keeps on doing its job all the time :
Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsMax\version\localization\scripts\startup
Vista/7 : Users\username\...\Autodesk\3dsMax\version\localization\scripts\startup

If you are the Administrator and want it to apply to all Users, you can also put it in
3dsMax root folder\Scripts\Startup

Tags: UI, clean, PhysX, User Interface, customize

Comments (2)

jonahhawk · 2011-02-26

Yeah... I don't have this problem. Sometimes the best solutions are the the simplest ones.

Other way :

noel_d3 · 2011-02-23

Thank you, it's nice but it seams complicated for a simple thing:
You can simply move the file "px_start.ms" from "script / startup" to "script" ;-)