Please make current calculation cancellable

[JamesB]

I cannot tell you how much wasted time I have to endure from freezing when changing a setting in FP and realizing max is now frozen and I have to crash max manually, restart, and pick up where I last saved, often losing anywhere from 10 minutes to an hours work. I must have lost a month of my life to this so far.

This usually occurs when switching between UV/XY mode, turning on a surface area or other.

Please please please add a way for the current calculation to be cancelled via hitting esacpe.

[Michal Karmazín]

I'm sorry to hear that you're facing these troubles. Please have a look at this post to see if it might be related:

https://forum.itoosoft.com/faq/edges-of-surface-areas/

Thanks in advance for any further comments on this issue that you can share with us and our user community, in case other users encounter similar troubles.

Best regards,

[iToo]

Unfortunately, because technical reasons, it's not possible to cancel Forest process hitting escape. Usually this only can be done on plugins running interactively with a progress bar (as tools).
Besides that, Forest depends of several 3DS Max processes which are not cancellable. As mesh processing and others.

Said that, these long time processes are not normal. We should investigate what is causing the slowdown.
If you have some particular scene which causes it, please send us a simplificated scene and we'll take a look to it.