Walk Through Tool

[Varchi]

After searching quite a bit, I'm fairly certain this problem has yet to be addressed.

While using the walk through tool it hangs after a certain increment and only continues after I move my mouse or press another movement key.

 

Example: I'm holding both the left mouse button down and holding down the up arrow. The view will progress forward and stop at the same time increment every time. To move again I either move the mouse while the button is still held or repress the up arrow.

 

This happens with any direction and any key used. Speeding or slowing the tool will only increase the distance the camera travels but not the time in which it travels before stopping.

By the way new drawings do not do this; however, I don't think the problem relates to content. I suspect I've incidentally hit some other shortcut that is causing this behavior. It's a large model and I'd rather not trouble shoot it just yet by importing it into another drawing.

 

Can anyone help me with this? I've never had this problem before.

I'm using 3ds Max 2011 64bit on Windows 7

[Varchi]

I feel like Bill Murray in Life Aquatic when he's swiping away leeches: "Really just me?"

 

No one ever have this problem? Any suggestions at all?

 

Update: Turns out it was a performance issue. That's my best guess. Reopening the drawing hadn't helped before, but it seems to be working today.

Edited December 9, 2010 by Varchi

[BrianKitts]

Yup.... exact same experience I've had. I'd I've never figured out what causes/fixes it. Sometimes closing max and reopening fixes it and sometimes it takes a full reboot. I'm wondering if there is some environment variable that if playing games with the keyboard override toggle in max..... either way, it's over my head and annoying when it happens.

[Varchi]

I'm beginning to think the same. My hands are always flying all over the keyboard when I'm cleaning up vertices. I wonder if I end up hitting some multi-key shortcut that toggles something similar to what you mentioned. Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one with this annoying problem.

[LukeC]

I've had this problem for years and never really found a solution. I have noticed, however, that it seems to only kick in on large scale models, for example, large detailed apartment blocks or shopping complexes as opposed to a single house- and it also might have something to do with units, i.e working with a large model in mm for example. I can't be certain of this, and have no real way to test it but that issue seemed to show up when my model was under those conditions

[Scott Dombrowski]

Happens to me too. It's completely annoying and inconsistent on when it happens, which makes it even more annoying. One "solution" I've found is that if (when) you get stuck, tapping the "Q" key to toggle between fast/slow walk will sometimes get things moving again. You have to do it while you're still attempting to "walk" but are stuck.

[Varchi]

I had kind of given up on this for the time being, but it just started messing up on me in a relatively simple scene.

 

I noticed that the set keys button (the one with the key at the bottom) flashes in a somewhat correlative manner with the hesitation of the walkthrough tool. By flash I mean the key turns gray. I'm not well versed on animation and shortcuts involved. Are there any toggle shortcuts involved with animation that could mess with the walkthrough tool?