Maya: How to reduce perspective distortion

Big Rocket

Hello,

Something really bugs me about working in Maya. When I zoom in really close to the object I'm working on in the perspective window, I get a lot of perspective distortion (where parallel lines don't appear parallel anymore based on how close they are to the viewer). Is there a way to adjust the viewport setting to reduce or eliminate this phenomenon?

FYI, I already know how to set the perspective window to orthographic, but then it becomes a pain to rotate the view (either view through camera and rotate camera, or adjust the azimuth IIRC).

Thanks,
BR

Daz

Your lens is too short.
If your camera focal length is about 35, try doubling it to 70 to give you a longer lens feel.

Big Rocket

Thanks, Daz. I think this is like the 10th time you've been a great help.

-BR

Snowfly

Hey, is there any way to set the long focal length as default? I set it to 90 first thing in every project, but would like to not have to anymore.

Faucet

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You could create a scene with all your defaults the way you like it, then change your Maya shortcut to "maya defaultscene.mb"

I thought there was a place where you could put a default scene and the program will open with that normally, but I can't find it. Perhaps I'm thinking of MAX or something.

Snowfly

Thanks faucet, works well enough although I sometimes forget to use 'save as' instead of 'save' on my first save, overwriting my default scene. guess i'll just have to be more mindful of that..

vahl

the default scenes are in the my documents/maya/projects folder these informations are stored in the projects configuration so if you set this one as your current project and make the changes (or replace this one with a project config you like) maybe that will work.