strange problem!! max doesn't take small key-in data. Help!!

[travel.home]

Hi everyone,

I encountered an annoying situation in 3D max, i don't know what to do. Please help! (i am using max 2009). The problem is: When I draw geometry in max and go key-in geometry numbers (ex. length, height..etc), 3D Max doesn't take small number i input! (ex. a box is 1m x 1m x 1m and i key-in 2m as it's length, the length remained as 1m and nothing changed. I have to input huge number as 100m for max to react. my max only accept big number as input and the geometry changed accordingly not small numbers) My unit is set to Metric and i have tried mm, cm, m, even km. The problem is still there. Can anyone help me with this? Is there a place i can set up higher decimal tolerance?

Another big problem with this situation is when i am inputting Vray's intensity... As everyone know, the VraySun's intensity is usually something 0.005, fairly small number. My max only accept 0 or 1 or 2... It doesn't even take 0.1... As a result, my light intensity is either way to strong (1) or no light at all (o) Please help!!!

[Chad Warner]

How far away from the origin are you? If you're model is far away from 0, you can get goofy errors like this.

[travel.home]

Hey, thanks for your reply!

my model is super simple and they are right beside the 0,0,0 point(origin).

[Joseph Petrino]

Try

 

Customize / Preferences / General / spinner precision

 

make sure it's a reasonable number.

[travel.home]

Hey Thanks so much!! You got the problem solved!

I change spinner's number and turn off the snap.(don't know why it was by default on?!) (5% of the time small number input is still not too smooth) But, my max is much better and controllable now!