topic Re: Viewport camera problem in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Viewport camera problem

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 18:59:15 GMT

Whenever I try and select an object or a vertex, poly, etc, the camera just flies away and I always have to press Z to come back to the model, anyone knows what's the problem? Thanks in advance!

https://gyazo.com/da59ee4462d8f0c6bad9081bbb07037d

Re: Viewport camera problem

miledrizk — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 19:43:47 GMT

Hi,

Is this happening in all files or just this one?

If you open a new fresh max file and create a simple object near the origin does it work normally?

If the previous test works then you need to check if your objects are too far from the origin,

And try to moving them so they are around 0,0,0

Re: Viewport camera problem

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 23:59:08 GMT

They're indeed close to 0,0,0 and yeah it only is this scene, thought I pressed something because I saw people with the same problem, but no solution

Re: Viewport camera problem

miledrizk — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:07:51 GMT

Hi,

It's a bit strange, anyway,

Maybe you can open a new Max file and use Merge to bring all your objects,

And see what happens.

Re: Viewport camera problem

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 01:08:10 GMT

Still doesn't work, tried restarting my PC and moving the shapes to another save, same bug.

Re: Viewport camera problem

Fadhil_Farook — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 05:16:01 GMT

Can you upload the file here? Let's see if this is local to your PC only or is global!

Re: Viewport camera problem

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:15:44 GMT

Yeah sure, here it is, if nothing works I'll try and moving to 3ds max 2019 see if it does anything

Re: Viewport camera problem

Fadhil_Farook — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:27:27 GMT

I've opened the file and tested. It's not happening on mine though. I am using Max 2019. But I saved a copy as Max 2017. Try opening this using Max 2018.

Re: Viewport camera problem

miledrizk — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:55:41 GMT

Hi,

It happened when I opened it, it's a bug in the ViewCube.

To deal with this issue you have three ways:

1- Press the letter P to work in the perspective view instead of the Orthographic view.

2- If you want to keep working in the Orthographic view, press the letter P to switch to Perspective,

Then Press the letter U to switch back to Orthographic view, and this time the problem will go away.

3- Simply disable the ViewCube by clicking the "+" sign near the Viewports name, find the ViewCube

And uncheck the option: Show the ViewCube.