Graphics card issue?

# 1 16-05-2007 , 02:50 PM

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I always work in inches because when I work in feet or yards and my objects are larger as I view out the image dissapears, but it will still render.

here's what I mean by the image starts to dissapear when i zoom out:
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is this a graphics card problem?

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Pentium 4 (CPU), 3.20GHz
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Radeon X300 SE 128 HyperMemory

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# 2 16-05-2007 , 04:04 PM

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im not sure what is wrong, my laptop does something like that with image planes but thats because its not meant for maya, but i think your graphics card should be find, i was running maya on a 9250 radeon and it worked fine. do you get lines in the screen? while your doing random stuff?

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did you update the drivers?

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# 3 16-05-2007 , 04:23 PM

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those green lines are from my front top and side viewports, they're just there, always have been. Other than this disspearing problem though I have no problems with maya or graphics at all. *knock on wood*

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# 4 16-05-2007 , 06:39 PM

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Have you checked the camera's far clipping plane setting? Sounds like it's not set high enough. I think default is 1,000. I've currently started setting mine at 100,000 as that's where a friend of mine sets his.

Hope this helps.
Edit: You can change it in the camera attributes (for each camera). And, you can change it universally in the Preferences.

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# 5 16-05-2007 , 06:57 PM

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Never even knew of that, so I checked it out set it up higher in the main preference, and it still clipped out at the same spot so I went into my perspective camera attribute editor and was able to fix it in the Far Clip Plane slot. I wonder why it only worked through there? Well anyway I appreciate the help, you saved me a lot of frustration :headbang: , I was getting sick of working in inches, everything seemed so small, haha. Thanks again.

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# 6 16-05-2007 , 07:07 PM

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If you change it in preferences, it won't go into effect until the next time you start Maya. And, maybe even the next time you create a new scene. But you did good, changing it in the attributes changes it immediately. Glad you got it working.

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