Viewport Quality Horrible with Large Scale Scene

[SvalinnAsgard]

Hail to thee,

Perhaps this has been brought up before, but I find myself at odds with the lack of quality in the Softimage viewport when viewing a scene that has objects placed out in the 11,000 unit range. I am building a large city for a game and it must be to scale, but working from a distance is hard because of the constant flickering and depth issues. Select triangles from objects hundreds of units behind another start appearing in front. This creates a garbled mess of triangles and black backfaces. Judging the overall shape and composition from a distance is critical for a game city, but this cannot be done. I have tried different modes, but there is no real difference aside from a huge FPS drop. After using 3DS Max and Maya, I greatly admire Softimage, and this is the first real issue I have with it.

Does anyone know how to improve the viewport quality at huge scales?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

[csaez]

Play a little bit with the clipping planes of your camera, lowering the near plane should do the trick ;)

[SvalinnAsgard]

Thank you for the reply. Your suggestion appears to have worked quite well; I had sent my far clip plane very far away early on and the range between the two was in the millions of units, causing a lot of distortion.

Thanks again.