Solved Zoomed out of scene, can't zoom back in or toggle UI

[qwerty134930]

I spent about 5 hours working on a scene in desktop mode and then ended up zooming far out, and I can't seem to zoom back in and I'm currently stuck in the endless abyss.

Normally I could just open the menu and spawn a new atom with the option that switches your focus to it to bring me back to the center of the scene, but I can't open my UI. All that appears is the desktop bar, which I can click on but the buttons don't seem to do anything now, with the exception of the three dots on the right simply expanding the additional options. If I press M, I can hear the audio in my scene animation still playing.

How do I go about at least saving my scene so I don't loose 5 hours of work? I feel like an idiot asking since this probably has an easy fix, but I couldn't find any information skimming through the wiki or on the forum here. Thanks.

 

[random_user_9000]

Maybe be too late, but good practice to save often and use some plugin to auto save scene.
Anyways, I tried doing the same to zoom out so much that it break all UI. If you have person atom in your scene, try pressing key shortcuts to get to the Person atom menu. So open menu (U) > edit mode (E) > select person (N). Then press F and R to reset focus on atom and keep zooming in. Keep pressing F regularly as you zoom in. I got back to normal after zooming a long time.

 

[qwerty134930]

Maybe be too late, but good practice to save often and use some plugin to auto save scene.
Anyways, I tried doing the same to zoom out so much that it break all UI. If you have person atom in your scene, try pressing key shortcuts to get to the Person atom menu. So open menu (U) > edit mode (E) > select person (N). Then press F and R to reset focus on atom and keep zooming in. Keep pressing F regularly as you zoom in. I got back to normal after zooming a long time.

Too late, but I appreciate having an answer that I and others can reference in the future. Thanks!

 

[supperGR]

I know this is too late but i was straggled with this problem once
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