How to use zooming in Blender's viewport? I'm new to Blender. I've used 3Ds Max, Modo, Maya in the past, and want to give Blender a try. However I can't seem to get a grasp on how to navigate the 3d scene in Blender 2.8. When I press alt, right click and drag in one direction, the camera sometimes zooms in (or out, it's 50/50), then as I keep dragging (in the same direction) all of a sudden it starts to zoom the other way, and it either keeps doing this weird in-out-in-out zooming or it'll get stuck and I'll have to re-frame the camera. The way it behaves is so un-predictable that it gives me motion sickness. Is this standard behavior or what am I missing?
Zooming seems to work fine.



You can use mouse wheel as well as ctrl+middle mouse button and drag. It is often useful to frame selected while navigating as well Numpad . is the default shortcut for that.

As very few people experience problems with zooming I suspect that something may be set up wrong in your settings. You mention non standard hotkeys - there may be something wrong with the keymap you are using. If you are just starting to use Blender, I would strongly recommend to use the defaults for a while especially when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. Customization is useful and most of the time necessary, however you should give yourself a bit of time to get to know what you are changing.