3DS Max Viewport is Clipping Model

nevets2001uk · Jan 2011

I'm not sure if I'm doing something stupid but I'm quite new to 3ds max and have been working at scale on some game models. I have my units set to 1m as required by the engine import at the moment. Whenever I get close to a model it gets clipped drastically so working on fine details is very difficult. My only workaround at the moment is to turn of the perspective which helps.

Is this normal behaviour and is there a way to work on smallish models at 1m real world scale properly?

Revel · Jan 2011

Usualy making the object pivot become the center of transformation (z) will fix the clipping thing. But if that doesn't help click the [Perspective] on the viweport and choose "viewport clipping" then drag the slider on the right side of that particular viewport to adjust the clipping distance.

_Revel

nevets2001uk · Jan 2011

Great tips, thanks. I'll try those later and see how I get on.

nevets2001uk · Mar 2011

Hi again. I tried those tips and still seem to be struggling. Either working on a small to scale model in meter unit or with a whole scene I'm putting together which seems even worse. I really struggle to navigate around the scene in the perspective viewport. The scroll wheel zooming seems to jump massive amounts and I can't get close enough to model / tweak smaller elements and object positions at all.

MrOneTwo · Mar 2011

Hold ctrl and alt and scroll wheel then move mouse up and down. Smooth zooming. I usually work in ortho view. Most of the time its easier to work with and no clipping issue.

Sean VanGorder · Mar 2011

In the upper left hand corner of the viewport, click on the camera name (perspective, left, top, etc..) and then select "viewport clipping". It should bring up a yellow bar with two arrows on the right side of the viewport. Zoom in on the object to where it starts clipping, and then adjust the yellow arrows until it becomes visible again.

Hope that helps.

Mark Dygert · Mar 2011

Yep refocus the camera on the current selection (z), check your scale or adjust the viewport clipping.

If its a scale issue there isn't much you can do other than work at a larger scale. Typically what I would do is scale the object up, 2000%, never reset the transforms and set scale back to 100% when I was done with the up close operations.

3DS Max Viewport is Clipping Model

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