3DS Max Perspective default instead of Ortho..

jenninexus

Hi friends :-)

I'm a diehard Max fan.. I press P constantly during my workflow to access perspective view but when I use T or B to view top or bottom, for example, when I rotate out of that it goes automatically to orthographic view which drives me nuts.

Does anyone have a logical solution to avoid having to press P a million times per session to get out of ortho?

Thanks in advance. Love Polycount / the members. See ya :-)

Jenni
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Mant1k0re

Coming from Blender when I switched to Max it was one of the first thing I wanted to change, I asked on their forum and the answer was "not possible" at the time.

PolyHertz

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135133

monster

That script in that post isn't fully functional. I've taken a different approach by waiting until the view is done orbiting and then convert the viewport. The only issue is that this effectively blocks Orthographic view, but that's not hard to figure out if needed.

--CONVERTS USER VEW INTO PERSPECTIVE
(
	unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback OrthoToPersp
	
	global OrthoToPersp
	
	fn OrthoToPersp =
	(
		--DON'T CONVERT VIEWPORT IF ORBITING / PANNING
		mouseControl = (dotNetClass "Control")
		mouseDown = dotnet.CompareEnums mouseControl.MouseButtons.value__ mouseControl.MouseButtons.Middle.value__
		
		if not mouseDown and viewport.getType() == #view_iso_user do
		(
			viewport.setType #view_persp_user
			ForceCompleteRedraw()
		)
	)
	
	registerRedrawViewsCallback OrthoToPersp
)

You can right click this link and save as to the MaxScript Startup Folder.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/MaxScript/OrthoToPersp.ms

Joost

That script looks cool. I personally prefer modelling in orthographic mode anyway. And I'll switch to perspective every now and then to check the proportions. I find that many functions are broken in perspective and work much better in orthographic view, unfortunately.