BIG Monitors

Playdo · Apr 2010

I use a 22 inch monitor but find that I need more space with Max when having multiple viewports up on screen. This is just a thought but, is it a lot easier nicer working on a big monitor like, maybe 26+?

I'm pretty certain it's a no, but is there a way to separate a viewport so that you can put different viewports across two monitors?

ZacD · Apr 2010

bigger size in inches doesn't help, higher rez is what you need. And 2 or 3 monitors.

vcortis · Apr 2010

Yeah ZacD is right. You need dual monitors, and a monitor that can go to 1920x1200. Makes life so much easier to the point if I use anything else I become seriously uncomfortable.

Playdo · Apr 2010

I have 2 and they're high res (1920x1200). The second's good to place dialogue boxes, material editor, render setup etc. onto but you can't separate the viewport windows across multiple screens AFAIK. I'd like to be able to have the four viewports up at once and easily work between them.

vcortis · Apr 2010

You can maximize the program and drag it across both screens. Then you can resize each window so that it breaks where your monitors separate. That way you can get two viewports on each monitor.

ErichWK · Apr 2010

I use my second monitor to watch Hulu while I do 3d on my main.

Playdo · Apr 2010

Ah yes Vcortis, I did that a while back, and forgot. Super Screen. Thanks

Esprite · Apr 2010

Personally I think getting a monitor with high resolution with good blacks is more important than size. I have 28in but it has some horrible blacks and it screws with my ability to do symmetrical drawings. 24in w/ multiple monitors is an ideal setup comparatively.

whats_true · Apr 2010

Perspective mode on always. I have a hot key that jumps back to the other 4 othoganal modes. I hardly ever see al 4 at once though unless its to measure something.

Slum · Apr 2010

whats_true wrote: »

Perspective mode on always. I have a hot key that jumps back to the other 4 othoganal modes. I hardly ever see al 4 at once though unless its to measure something.

This.

If you constantly have 4 views up, you're not getting the most of your screen real-estate. In fact, I generally run Max in Expert mode with hotkeys for everything. Tilde toggles maxscript listener (like console in a game. VERY useful for doing quick operations via script). Also have another key to toggle the command panel on and off. Keep it hidden most of the time, and show it only when needed.

Richard Kain · Apr 2010

The best combination is to have a large screen in terms of size, that also has an exceptionally high resolution. If you are willing to shell out the necessary cash, you can get very large screens that have amazingly high resolution. And of course, it is also nice to have two of them next to each other.

Personally, I don't like to go without dual-monitors anymore. It's not much good for games, since very few games support dual-monitors. But it is fantastic for general application work. I can be working in Blender on one screen, with a tutorial up in a browser on the other. Ditto for coding work.

Yozora · Apr 2010

I see no benefit of having all 4 views being visible, especially if those 4 views are top, side, front and perspective.

I see some potential for having a camera/realtime view in 1 view while moving stuff around in another view, but still no need for 4 at once.

I have:
1x 24" 1920x1200
1x 22" 1680x1050

dregoloth · Apr 2010

even if you have a secondary monitor working at a low 1024x768, you'll see a noticeable increase in the speed with which you complete tasks.

pior · Apr 2010

Hey, I never went higher than dual 1600*1200 21inch (maybe slightly wider at work)
Whats your fav resolution and size guys ? What about the uber apple monitors ?

Slum · Apr 2010

At work my main monitor is a 30inch, 2560x1600. I do a lot of text editing (shader code, scripting, etc etc) so I have a secondary 20inch(or something) monitor at 1680x1050 I use for text/email/browsing.

Raider · Apr 2010

nothing is better then 2 monitors when you're real time texturing, ps one 1 screen, max on the other... oh so good. But yer whenever i model i tend to just model full screen on whatever view i need then switch back and foward via hot keys to match.

Using 2x 22" @ 1680x1050.. but i wana bump up to maybe 24" @ 1900x1200

EarthQuake · Apr 2010

Pior: I feel the Apple's are overpriced(shocking i know) you can get a high end dell for 2/3 the price with the same performance(very good color, view angles, etc). Dont get me wrong, they are very very good, Gauss had a 23" at work, but the cost of that was like $999, while my dell 24 ran me $518 shipped. Just way to expensive, probably marginally better performance, but nowhere near the price compared to the excellent Dell screen i have. The problem when you get passed the $500-ish range for a 24" is you get up to $1-3000 for these "professional" monitors, i just dont know how anyone could ever justify that.

I've got a dell 24(2408wfp, 1920x1200) with a Asus pw201 20" as a secondary, i will buy another Equiv Dell 24 as a secondary display before i go to anything over 24" i think. Maybe getting a 26" or 30" as the main and keeping the 24" as secondary, but that just seems quite excessive. I think i'de rather put my money into a better CPU than do that, something that will really increase productivity.

thomasp · Apr 2010

i use dual 21-inch 1600x1200 LG flatron's from years ago. shame they hardly make that resolution/ratio anymore since the 24 inchers are a bit too wide for my liking.
i also got a dell 2408wfp here. decent monitor, with somewhat messed up colors and a noticeable grain in the image. should be alright for modelling. i however use it for websurfing mostly.

for work - never choose a monitor with less than 1200 vertical rez, i'd say. too crammed an image.

ZacD · Apr 2010

pior wrote: »

Whats your fav resolution and size guys ? What about the uber apple monitors ?

as high rez as possible, apple monitors are good monitors (any of their screens are, that's why there's stuff is more expensive (pure monitors to laptops to ipad), but then they add a few hundred for the name apple.

Kwramm · Apr 2010

For a pure work machine I prefer dual monitors, but at home I have a 30" samsung with 2560x1600 (305t I think? awesome monitor). Very good compromise for a work/gaming machine. Although I've been thinking of adding a 1600x1200 monitor next to it and rotate it 90 degs....mainly just for holding reference images. For menues and toolbars and everything else I have enough space on my main monitor.

ZacD · Apr 2010

Kwramm wrote: »

For a pure work machine I prefer dual monitors, but at home I have a 30" samsung with 2560x1600 (305t I think? awesome monitor).

$1.3k for that? damn, is it worth it? I might be a good monitor/tv combo, nice resolution on it.

Autocon · Apr 2010

whats_true wrote: »

Perspective mode on always. I have a hot key that jumps back to the other 4 othoganal modes. I hardly ever see al 4 at once though unless its to measure something.

This

Also rock 2, 22's.

I have orthographic views on my quad menu.

Hazardous · Apr 2010

I have 2 of the 24" dell ultrasharp widescreens, 1920 x 1200 ones rotated to portrait mode when working on chars.

I want to replace one with a cintiq, i fell in love when i stayed back late one night and pinched one of the concept artists cintiq and had some zbrushing fun.... he noticed some extra nerd butter on his touch pads the next morning... his spidey-sense is insane.

hawken · Apr 2010

my screen is 27" with a rez of 2560 X 1440

can have 3 word docs / web pages open side by side easily. Makes a huge difference to my workflow.

ZacD · Apr 2010

Im looking into getting a decent priced high rez monitor, something like 2560 sounds nice

Lamont · Apr 2010

What about video memory? I am thinking of getting another 24". I have a GTX 295. In the past I had problems with Unreal/Maya and PS open. Eventually menus stopped showing up.

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