Please have a look at the attached .blend file. I have changed a setting that prevents objects from moving, scaling, or rotating. When I attempt those actions, the colored arrows marking the selected object disappear, a single white arrow appears, the machine thinks for about 4 seconds, and the view returns to normal–with no motion accomplished.
This is a simple interface issue, but I remain baffled…
Actually it has something to do with the two subsurf modifiers on the sphere you’ve added . Delete one of them . Having 2 is overworking your system unnecessarily . If you need more geometry, turn up the subsurf level to 2 instead (you really don’t need to as the render level by default is 2) …
@ Richard Marklew : he wants the shaded mode to be able to see the planet rotate into and out of darkness …