odd C4d behavior

[rirad]

You probably already checked but have you by accident activated snapping?

[Pillboxx]

Um...no. I am still new to this and 3d modeling concepts. I did not check. It was enabled. I never even look at that screen. Thank you.

Now time to go bang my head against the wall. Doh.

[Srek]

Hi,
maybe you zoomed the editor camera out too much? To test this create a simple camera from the view you are using and check the focal length. if it is much larger then 35 you have created a strong zoom and the camera itself is very far away, leading to distortions and rounding problems in the calculation when working on a smaller scale.
To fix this switch the view camera to parallel and back to perspective.
Hope this helps
Srek

[Essania]

I've had this problme once. It was something with OGL settings.
Try to desactivate the OGL Hardware lighting.

[Pillboxx]

thanks for the reply Shrek but rirad was right. I had accidently activated the snap settings. I never use those so I didn't know what was wrong. Once again rirad thanks.

This is not the first time I have experienced strange behavior. Of course it may be user created.

Such as...Sometimes when I go to save, it may say untitled.c4d in the dialog box instead of the name of the file I am using. And if I dare save it like that I lose alot of information such as symmetry and other stuff.

And awhile back I think I copy and pasted something into the project and now the center point for the symmetry object is no longer at 0, but is now at 3.95m. Very odd. That I can live with.

Now I don't know if it is something I did again or what. Oh well. The life of a noob.

[rirad]

You're welcome. Snapping is really useful when you need it, but it can be a pain if it’s on without consent. :)

[cyclinggimpe]

Originally posted by Pillboxx

And awhile back I think I copy and pasted something into the project and now the center point for the symmetry object is no longer at 0, but is now at 3.95m. Very odd. That I can live with.

Now I don't know if it is something I did again or what. Oh well. The life of a noob.

I don't know if this could be what you did to make your centre point not be at 0; but, this is what I've noticed while modelling. When I am tweaking a set of points along the seam, a lot of times I miss the next point I want to select. Then I notice that the already selected points would move a little after I click/miss the next point and if I don't notice it to do an undo, the centre points would move a little so that they aren't at 0 anymore. Then I notice the seam in the centre of my model. When I first started learning cinema (not that long ago), I wouldn't notice doing this for quite awhile and then would have to set the seam points to 0 again. Maybe this isn't what is happening with you; but, it might be something to look at/keep in mind.

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