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Oikman
05-08-2003, 04:07 AM
this has happend to me a few times and it pisses me off... when i
click on the arc rotate or any of the move tools and try and move something in the perspective or any viewport for that matter it goes to wire frame selection.... like if i had a sphere it would be just a squarewire frame that is the selection of that object........
can anyone help me in my problem???
holosynthetic
05-08-2003, 04:17 AM
i am probably wrong, but press the "U" key on your keyboard and see what happens
Oikman
05-08-2003, 04:21 AM
The 'U' just changes the viewport to user. but thanks anyway
holosynthetic
05-08-2003, 04:26 AM
maybe press "O"...
Oikman
05-08-2003, 04:31 AM
Nice it worked!!! thanks man
im new to this stuff
holosynthetic
05-08-2003, 04:32 AM
sorry about the first answer...i was taking a wild guess..i had to open max to know for sure..i don't use hot keys that often
Oikman
05-08-2003, 04:34 AM
thats ok

at one time before i found this forum i reinstalled the program because it happend... but i'll never forget it now!
thanks again
Marcel
05-08-2003, 09:49 AM
The explanation: the O key is the 'adaptive degradation override toggle'. When the scene is to 'heavy' it will draw wireframes instead of shaded polygons.
This feature can be handy when you are working with big scenes, because rotating 400k shaded polys is not always the fastest way of working. :)
jimcoldt
05-08-2003, 02:23 PM
I think Oikman should win some award for being the 1 millionth person to ask this question. Seriously, that question is asked on here at least once a week... it should be a 'sticky' topic or something.

:deal:
magicm
05-08-2003, 03:36 PM
I've added this question/answer to the "tips & tricks" thread (inside the "3dsmax tutorials/tips" forum). ;)

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=572089#post572089
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