Annoying setting in 3d studio max

Since reinstalling 3d studio max, everytime I use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out, the view stays fixed onto the exact centre of the viewport, whereas before, I could use it to zoom out from 1 point, move the cursor to another point, then use the mousewheel to zoom to the new point.

This was handy for when I had multiple objects in a scene. As it is now, I have to manually drag the scene with the hand tool in the bottom right of the page.

How do I set it so I can use the mouse wheel to zoom from one object to another.

Sorry if this sounds confusing, but I couldn't think of a better way of wording it. Any of you use the mousewheel to zoom in and out, and from one object to another, you will understand what I mean.


Thanks in advance.

i had this problem once .. i just reinstalled it and it was fine

I've only just installed it, I was thinking more along the lines of there being something in the general program configuration that would fix it.


edit//

nevermind, I've fixed it.

The same thing happens to mine but I just accepted that it was the way it was until I saw Drews reply. This inspired me to search the configuration tabs until I found the solution and here it is.

Click the 'Customise' Menu
Click 'Preferences'
Click the 'Viewports' tab
In the 'Mouse Control' area, tick the 'Zoom About Mouse Point (Orthorgraphic) box

and thats all there is to it.

My first reply with a solution! Well im happy anyway.

Hope this works for you.

Me again, I do have to say that this setting doesnt seem to affect the perspective viewport though, that still zooms in on the centre of the viewport. Cant help there.

Michael

Yeah, that's how I fixed it, got fed up of it doing it, so did the same as you, went through the customise>prefs section and changed things, then see what noticable effect it had.

As for the persective viewport not doing it, I'm not too fussed about that, I usually make changes in the other 3 views, then see what it looks like in perspective.