Studio Max's Preview Selection Default

[BigJohn]

Hey, anyone knows how to have Max set its Preview Selection box to default to SubObj?

The default seems to be Off, and I keep manually setting it to SubObj.

I'm using Max 2010 btw

[BigJohn]

Not sure if it matters to anyone, but I found a decent enough solution through maxscript.

What I did was to add a hook to whenever the user changes the subobject level. And each time that happens, change the Preview Selection option to SubObj. It's just a simpler 1-liner, and maybe someone will find this useful in the future:

callbacks.addScript #ModPanelSubObjectLevelChanged "$.selectMode = 1" id:#sMode1

I added this to a macscript that Max loads automatically. So the whole process is invisible. And I'm now using this method to customize all sorts of aspects of max