Max it your way, everytime

[marvin]

I dont know if anybody is aware of this feature in Max, but if you want it to open an already set out scene automatically, you can.

First set up the scene the way you want, eg:

Renderer, materials, lighting, even get rid of the grid, chose your view type, smooth, edge faced, whatever,

and save the file as maxstart.max in your scene directory.

Max will load it everytime it starts up, and when you click save to save a project, it will still prompt you for a file name, so it wont overwrite maxstart, unless you rename the file that.

Hope someone finds this useful.