Scarlett Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I'm not where to post this because it might be a hardware issue, or it could be a technique thing or something else altogether. I've been fiddling around with various modeling apps for a while now and have found that the easiest way for me to work is to construct the walls, windows, and doors in Revit because it's so intuitive until it comes to custom objects, then put it in ACAD2k7 to create furniture and fixtures and finally into 3ds max to apply materials and adjust the camera angle and add lights. (Why isn't there just one program that merges the best of all worlds?) Problem is that once I get this into max, my computer is choking when I have to zoom in, pan around and orbit. When I add lights it practically comes to a standstill. The model I'm working with now seems fairly small and simple to me; about 500 s.f., mostly walls, some cabinetry and 3 pieces of furniture. The file properties tells me it has 90 objects and almost 336,000 faces. It doesn't list any polygons anywhere that I can see. Specs on my rig are: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+, GeForce 7800 GTX and 2 gigs of RAM. Is this a hardware inadequacy problem, bad modeling techniques or just the nature of the beast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 Your hardware is not at all inadequate. You probably need to adjust some settings. Go to the preferences for Viewport and see if you're in Software, OpenGL or DirectX mode. Software is very slow, DirectX is very fast, and with that card OpenGL is probably fast, not as fast as DirectX, maybe better quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 Where should I be looking for this Viewport Preferences? Let's just chalk it up to being late on a Monday night, but I'm not seeing this option on the max pull-downs or Nvidia tabs. Still, I'd be willing to bet I'm running it on OpenGL as I seem to remember everything wanted to default to that on install. At the time it seemed like the path of least resistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAB Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 customize>perfrences : viewports : choose driver >>> direct3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted May 24, 2006 Author Share Posted May 24, 2006 Oh wow! So much better than before. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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