Autodesk developer ‘Macrod’ is currently trying to solve the problems that a lot of users are experiencing with the new adaptive viewport sampling behavior in Max 2015. If you have suggestions or ideas please post them on Autodesk’s Area.
Design proposal for adaptive zoom/pan of viewport navigation system in Max 2015
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Maybe it’s just me, but I can for the life of me figure out what’s going on in that thread. Mainly, it’s because I get the impression that each poster is arguing for something slightly different than the other posters, then getting angry when people disagree with something they’re not saying.
The pre-2015 problem:
When consecutively zooming in, the zooming speed gets smaller and smaller until near 0 and you stick there.
The 2015 problem:
It samples geometries to always get a proper zooming speed so you never stick, but the sampling happens at every operation.
The solution is simple:
Preserve pre-2015 behavior completely, and enable the geometry sampling only if you intentionally press down a convenient modifier key combination and click (LMB when in Zoom/Pan mode or MMB) on the geometry.