[Bf-committers] New transform - middlemouse rotation

[Chris Burt]

I agree with Martin on this completely. (No shock to you I'm sure.) And 
its not just because I'm a kiss-ass. Martin's method has a great deal of 
room for improvement, yes, but the old method required that you press Z, 
X, or Y to rotate on an axis and MMB only allowed two-axis. Its 
debateable which you will use more, but it isn't debatable that the 
other old transform modes used MMB for axis constraints all along. 
Switching it so that rotation now uses MMB for axis contraints is much 
more consistent and sets the convention that other transform modes will 
rely on modifier keys and not pressing X, Y, or Z. "trackball" rotation 
will be no different. Am I right on this Theeth?

Regards,
--Chris

Martin Poirier wrote:
> --- Alexander Ewering <blender at instinctive.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Chris Burt wrote:
>>
>>
>>>View rotation? Works fine here. Object rotation?
>>
>>Has just been altered. And
>>
>>If middlemouse rotation has been altered, I propose
>>a userpref to bring back 
>>the old behaviour as an option. It appears that
>>clicking middlemouse while
>>rotating now constrains to an axis, but that's not
>>really a very useful
>>behavior because there's no visual relationship
>>between moving the mouse along
>>an axis and constraining *rotation* to that axis...
> 
> 
> I disagree. You're not moving the mouse along an axis,
> you're moving the mouse on an axis to select it as a
> constraint target.
> 
> 
>>So it should be dropped in favor of the old
>>trackball rotation invoked by
>>middlemouse.
> 
> 
> That's just a far fetched way to access different
> functionnality. What I'm suggesting is making the two
> axis rotation mode (what you call Trackball) a
> separate transformation as a whole which would make it
> simpler to access.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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