Simple question: Zooming and orbiting into objects

[JeiWo]

Hi all, I'm a new user to 3DS Max and have been working on some of the tutorials here trying to learn the program. Everything has been going well, but I feel like I've missed something very basic. I need to get inside my model of head so I can work on the mouth/lips, but I don't know how to do that. I get that if I press Z, it'll center my object and I can rotate my view around that whole object. But I don't know how to see it from the inside. If I keep zooming, it'll just zoom up to his skin but not let me actually get inside the head. Hopefully I'm missing something simple here, can anyone help me out?

I tried googling but apparently couldn't get the phrasing right because nothing helpful was popping up. Hopefully you guys get my question, thanks!

[FPizzani]

Hi,

Try zooming holding ctrl + alt + mouse wheel, and then move the mouse up and down. Sometimes this happens to me and it has to be to where "the focus" of the camera is.

If you press Z on a body, and then you try to zoom or orbit just into the head, the camera will try to orbit from the center point of the whole body. A quick way around this is to select for instance a vertex in the area of the mesh you want to zoom / orbit in.

If the zoom moves too slow, again select for instance a vertex of the area you want to work in, and press Z. The zoom will kinda "reset" to work in that area.

Sometimes is tricky to work inside models.

[JeiWo]

Finally figured out what it was after an hour of hitting random buttons and trying various things. Figured out my viewport had to be set to Perspective instead of Orthographic. Never realized that, but I'm glad I know now. Thanks for the reply anyway FPizzani, it's all a learning process for me.