3DS Max Orthographic View

Anngelos

So you know when your if full screen top down or side mode, and then you move the camera around your model to check it out. But the it throws you into orthographic mode instead of perspective mode so you gotta press p every time you accidentally move the camera?..

Is there any way to make perspective the default view when you move the camera in a view like top down?

Pathologist

It doesn't throw you in orthographic mode. The left, right, top, bottom views are all orthographic. The only way to change to perspective is by pressing P, using the drop down or using the View Cube.

Using the View Cube will drop you into perspective view when changing views.

Or making a MaxScript which catches the Callback and puts you into perspective view.

Anngelos

Thanks, I was leaving scripting for a last resort but it shouldn't be to hard.

WarrenM

There's an option in newer versions of Max to disable that behavior entirely, which is how I prefer it. It just ignores camera rotation input when in ortho views...

Mark Dygert

That is annoying and what WarrenM talks about does help.

I've been handing this a little different for a very long time and its a little closer to how Maya handles it, sort of. Instead of working in one viewport and switching it I have a 3 panel layout, Top, Left and Pers that I maximize and switch between. I bound "Maximize viewport toggle" to the spacebar. Need to switch to top view, hit space click the panel and hit space again (in maya your mouse just needs to be over the panel).

swytch

I do what Mark does as well, and if you want Max to autofocus (or not) as you move the mouse over a viewport you can change that in the Mouse tab of the Customize UI settings. More info here: http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/16/ENU/3ds-Max-Help/files/GUID-75E03BAB-0D94-43E0-B281-3AE3299BD2B9.htm