wtf wireframe looking weird ?

Joao Sapiro

i have been having this problem lately with wireframe views on 3ds max when i press F4 , this is getting really annoying since it tens to make the wireframe eligible, it even happens on lowpoly models, this started to happen with no reason one day :S

fritz

do you have any grouped objects? if so...ungroup and see if that solves the prob.

jgarland

Certain modifiers will render wire frames like that, even if you don't have "Show edged faces" selected. Try hitting F4 again to see if it solves the problem. If not, go through your modifier stack and show/hide individual modifiers to see if there is one that's causing the problem.

If that doesn't work, what Fritz described could likely be the problem. Good luck.

pior

Same here, never knew why. Disappeared just like it came.

Eric Chadwick

I bet it has something to do with the scale of your scene.

Shaded wireframe mode internally makes a live copy of your mesh and pushes it out a tiny amount.

If the scene is too huge or too small, precision gets wacky. Try using the Rescale World Units utility (don't use it if your model is rigged though), see if it goes away.

jgarland

Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip, Eric. It's a lot more likely than my suggestion.

Joao Sapiro

i used what you suggested eric, worked for far view, but regardless of the rescale big or small it always fudges the model when i zoom in :

Eric Chadwick

That's probably z-fighting, where the precision of the z-buffer is too small. If this is a Perspective view, right click on the viewport name and turn on Viewport Clipping, then adjust the two triangles at far right, see if that helps. User view is another option, not ideal of course.

Joao Sapiro

it worked ! thanks eric

Slum

You can pretty much count on Eric to always come into this forum and drop some knowledge. He's like the A Bomb to our polygonal Hiroshima.

Eric Chadwick

I be da bomb!

Must be said though, there are many great artists/helpers here on polycount. The consistently high quality of knowledge shared around here keeps me coming back.