Apologies accepted! I have buried the hatchet now Thank you very much and congratulations to the 3Dconnexion team for delivering a highly reliable and working driver for 3DS Max 2010. I just tested my Space Pilot and it's working like a charm!
Now back to some great 3D navigation and by the way, I'll continue to highly endorse all your products to my friends and on the 3D forums that I subscribe to.
Hi,
one tip to our max lions here as me. If you experience a very unsmooth behavior of the 3d device ( you see in the upper left edge that it switches between the 3dxcamera and the perspective view for a period of time )
you can do some things to fix this:
a ) use a common camera
b ) Disable Wireframe View
c ) Enable Hardware Shading ( this is much faster )
I also experienced blazing speed when I disabled the viewcubes, no need to have them using up the system resources when you use one of these 3D controllers
If your scene becomes real intense with geometry, it's bound to slow down your navigation. If that's the case you can enable the use of layers and hide the finished areas of your scene and continue to enjoy your controller and your modelling!
Does anyone have a solution as to why the 3D Conexion device (Space Pilot) stopped working in Max 2009 once the new device driver (3-7-12) was installed? The viewport just locks up after a few minutes of use. Likewise, I really have not tested to see if the device is working properly in 2010 either.
I installed the new driver so that I could start using the device with Max 2010, but I have some rush jobs that I'm only trusting to 2009 at the moment, & without the use of my Space Pilot things seem to be dragging.
Space Pilot
Vista/XP 64, Dual Quad Xeons 3.0Ghz, 16GB Ram
Nvidia Quadro FX 4600
3ds Max 2010, Inventor 2010, AutoCAD 2010, Rhino 4.0, Adobe master Suite CS3
malojo wrote:Hi,
one tip to our max lions here as me. If you experience a very unsmooth behavior of the 3d device ( you see in the upper left edge that it switches between the 3dxcamera and the perspective view for a period of time )
you can do some things to fix this:
a ) use a common camera
b ) Disable Wireframe View
c ) Enable Hardware Shading ( this is much faster )
also, do not work with the select-object tool, this slow down viewport (why ?), using select and move/rotate/scale is much better for viewport redraw (???).
Displaying statistics also slow down, but the worst issue is when you use the UVWunwrap with medium and high poly models, the redraw goes so slow that is pratically impossible to work with the 3D mouse ( 1 frame/3sec ).
Using the new 3.7.12 with a Space Traveler on Max 2010
The device has become useless. Will only operate in wireframe mode, but very slowly. Max 2009, which used to work, operates in the same slow behavior now.
Perspective viewport with shading...nothing happens but the screen blinks.
No, it made no difference. Now the device has just stopped working at all.
Where are the older drivers? It appears they were wiped clean from my drive when the new ones were installed and only the new one is available for download. I need to work today and I can use Max 2009! Please supply a link to the last version.
When drivers are updated the old driver gets removed.
As i stated earlier ive reported the issue.
post your OS version, 3dsmax 2009 version.
The programmers read the forums and will need any info you can provide.
Thank you very much and congratulations to the 3Dconnexion team for delivering a highly reliable and working driver for 3DS Max 2010. I just tested my Space Pilot and it's working like a charm!
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