Flight Studio Utility

Command entry:

Utilities panel

Utilities rollout

More button

Utilities dialog

Flight Studio

With the Flight Studio utility, you can manage OpenFlight models from within 3ds Max.

Procedures

To access the Flight Studio utility:

To make Flight Studio available from a button on the Utilities panel:

On the Utilities panel, click (Configure Button Sets).
3ds Max opens the Configure Button Sets dialog.
If you wish, increase the Total Buttons number so you don’t overwrite an existing utility button.
Drag the Flight Studio entry from the Utilities list on the left to a button in the button group on the right, and then click OK.

Interface

Level Of Detail group

These buttons use the OpenFlight level-of-detail (LOD) range to display more or less detail in 3ds Max viewports.

Hierarchy Browser Dialog (Flight Studio Utility)
The Hierarchy Browser dialog allows you to arrange, select, and edit the OpenFlight scene and attributes of its nodes.
Switch Attributes Dialog (Flight Studio Utility)
The Switch Attributes dialog lets you edit the mask data of a selected Switch node.