diff --git a/crates/egui/src/containers/scene.rs b/crates/egui/src/containers/scene.rs
index 6a9fc104..fff4136f 100644
--- a/crates/egui/src/containers/scene.rs
+++ b/crates/egui/src/containers/scene.rs
@@ -119,7 +119,9 @@ impl Scene {
 
         if !scene_rect_was_good {
             // Auto-reset if the transformation goes bad somehow (or started bad).
-            *scene_rect = inner_rect;
+            // Recalculates transform based on inner_rect, resulting in a rect that's the full size of outer_rect but centered on inner_rect.
+            let to_global = fit_to_rect_in_scene(outer_rect, inner_rect, self.zoom_range);
+            *scene_rect = to_global.inverse() * outer_rect;
         }
 
         ret
diff --git a/crates/egui_demo_lib/tests/snapshots/demos/Scene.png b/crates/egui_demo_lib/tests/snapshots/demos/Scene.png
index 0f67cc6a..a2c2e7ba 100644
--- a/crates/egui_demo_lib/tests/snapshots/demos/Scene.png
+++ b/crates/egui_demo_lib/tests/snapshots/demos/Scene.png
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-oid sha256:16ee44708adbe6e0ac3ce58617a5d63fb3bde357c07611815376518950e056b0
-size 34763
+oid sha256:b4bf35ad4ce01122de5bc0830018044fd70f116938293fbeb72a2278de0bbb22
+size 35068