Looking for a Max plugin which colored polygons by vertex count. Want to use it to check for non-quads on my basemesh.

2010 has a selection tool for non-quads.

Yeah, but I'm still using 7.

Max2010 you can use graphite modeling tools (or polyboost for 2009 and lower) to select faces based on # of edges. Its under selection > By Numeric

http://illusioncatalyst.com/ic_shape_intro.php#null
Illusion Catalyst also has similar function "nGon" which does the same thing.

http://monsterblues.wordpress.com/20...hos-my-quad-2/
Also Monster has a "whos my quad" script for just this type of thing.

another one here in case none of those work or you dont like them for whatever reason;

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/non-quad-selector

Thanks brahz.

max7 that is extreme dated, I think your only option are some maxscripts as those most likely have the deepest backward compatibility.