3DS Max 9 help with viewport movement?

Question

When I first installed this I was able to move things around easily. Now I am build things and when I try to move something I move my mouse a tiny bit and the stuff shoots around the screen and I can't control them. I am building on a plane if that helps any.

Answer 1

There could be several reasons for that:

1. You're dealing with very small scales. In that case use the 'change world units' utility.

2. you're trying to rotate something which has it's pivot very far from the actual object. In that case, you can go to the hierarchy tab and move the pivot to the correct center.

3. Unintentionally, you're restricting the movement to one axis, and try to move and object in a perspective/user viewport. The easy way is to move objects only using the 'move' gizmos (the red/green/blue arrows)