Rotation is not smooth when clicking the orbit cube

callmepaul

Hi! I am supper new to DAZ. I have a very basic question at this stage. When I try to pan around my scene clicking and dragging on the orbit cube, the rotation on the scene happens in 'chunks' instead of slowly and smoothly. As if it is going to predefined stpots instead of gently rottating. When I rotate an object everything works fine instead.

What I am doing wrong? is there anyway to rotate the scene other that clicking on the cube or hittint cntl+alt click?

Thanks a lot for any tip!

 

Richard Haseltine

What preview mode are you using? Click the sphere icon next to the camera/view picker at top-right of the viewport.

callmepaul

Hi Richard, thanks for your time! I am using "texture shaded" but since you asked I checked with all the rest and I experience the same non smooth scroll. It is not unusable, but when I watch tutorials I see people smoothly orbiting around a part of the scene and that is very hard to achieve currently. I will keep exploring. If you have any other tip I appreciate it!

Thanks a lot!

prixat

Does it behave the same with a very simple scene, just a single cube, no lights?

 

Richard Haseltine

What video card do you have? It may be worth going to Edit>Preferecnes>Interface tab and experimenting with the Display Optimisation button (turning it down isn't always best) and the Texture Resources slider

callmepaul

Thanks! my video card is an Nvidia Grid K520. I will test the diplay optimisation suggestion. 

Do you guys know if there is a way to orbit with the keyboard vs the mouse? I just want to make sure it is not the mouse (even though it works perfectly fine when I rotate a figure)

Thanks a lot!

 

Richard Haseltine

Window>Workspace>Customise allows you to see (and change) the modifier-drag commands for wiewport navigation.

callmepaul

Thanks a lot, I'll check everything as soon as I get back from work. I appreciate your help! :) 

Richard Haseltine said:

Window>Workspace>Customise allows you to see (and change) the modifier-drag commands for wiewport navigation.

 

DDCreate

This happened to me alot too but only in certain scenes. Some I could move through smoothly and others lagged. What solved it for me was increasing my RAM. I'm up to 24GB now and almost never have a problem unless there are a lot of character/elements in my scene. Just a thought. :) 

callmepaul

Thanks a lot DDCrate, I yet have to test the other suggestions, if they don't work then I guess your idea might be right. The strange part is that I am using 16GB ram and it happens with every scene not just complex ones. I will make all the tests and come back with my findings.

 

Thanks a lot!