I tried the Scene manager forums - but they don't work. Sorry for the off-topic - but we are still talking about Managers :)

I came here with the hope that my features request can be easily solved - or maybe there is already a version somewhere with those solved.

A few years ago I tried Scene Manager and I thought it was a fantastic tool. I even thought to make a request so all from the team should use this as a layer manager. But then again I noticed some problems like it was unfinished or something so I decided for the default layer manager - with far less features but more predictable.

I have some scenes now with ton of objects and in the latest weeks I saw on the internet some talks about the Scene Manager and I said : Oh good, it's still in development and I decided to give it another go. And it's exactly the same. Only now I'm more convinced to stay with it because it's almost vital.

I tried The Onion and I don't like it because it doesn't show the objects and can't select the objects.

So what's the problem with Scene Manager ? Very few but annoying. For start it doesn't save settings. Almost no settings. Every time I start 3ds max I have to do this :

go to options  and set "confirm before linking items" - ON

disable "Automatically adopt layer's properties" - This one CAN create some havok in the scene

"autoselect items by layer" - ON

Move the Layer Manager to the left and the Scene Tree to the right

It saves in the .ini the position on screen desktop(it works with 2 monitors - GREAT) - but no position of the internal windows.

The option "Store SM dialog's parameters to an INI file" seems to do nothing.

I found the INI created by SM - maybe if I add something manually to it I can set those options to stick ?