From the course: 3ds Max 2026 Essential Training
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Viewport playback options - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2026 Essential Training
Viewport playback options
- [Instructor] Let's set up our options for animation playback in the view ports, that'll be found once again in the time configuration dialogue. I'll launch that up. We have the playback section. Most important thing here is real time, that is on by default. We usually want to leave it enabled so that the view ports will play back at the current frame rate. For example, if I set my frame rate to 30 FPS and real time is on, then when I press play, my animation will play back at 30 frames per second. But in scenes that update slowly when they're very heavy, or if the scene has fast moving animation or if it uses a dynamic simulation like a physics engine. In any of those cases, we may want to disable real time. If real time is on, playing back a heavy scene results in frames getting skipped. If real time is off, every frame is displayed, no matter how long it takes to calculate. In a heavy scene, the playback will run more slowly, but it will not skip frames. In a lightweight scene…
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