[Bf-committers] Camera view navigation rant

[Brandon Phoenix]

I'm not a dev, but I definitely agree with you Daniel. I find that view mode 
rarely worthwhile. I think it may be useful to look at the way UDK does this 
(being an FPS engine). UDK uses W and S to control movement on the Y plane, A 
and D for the X plane, and SPACE and C for the Z. Mouse movement is used for 
rotation, and the scroll wheel is used to change the speed of movement. I would 
recommend, for use in Blender to add Q and E to control roll. Working with that 
engine, I've found the movement scheme to be incredibly useful for navigating 
large scenes. 

UDK is available here: http://www.udk.com/

Hope that helps make a decision.

Brandon Phoenix

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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:55:46 -0600
From: "Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com" <zanqdo at gmail.com>
Subject: [Bf-committers] Camera view navigation rant
To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
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So can we take a look at camera view navigation? It's like playing a
space flight simulator every time I press Shift F, I just want to
position and orient my camera, not to deal with inertia and atmosphere
entering angle! (feels like that at least)
http://chrome.atari.com/lunarlander/

The flight mode panning (WASD keys) is of no use.. again calculating
directions and inercia and keeping in mind how many presses I've done
for each side so I can try and counter act when I want a stop! (which
never works btw, the counter act seems to never be able to reach zero
again) this could be a test for new NASA astronauts.

Trackball is a "decent" tool for orienting the camera but it is about
10 times too sensitive, and somehow seems like it's going the wrong
direction (inverted axis?)

I have asked for simple game like controls in the past, you know those
first person shooter controls? those are intuitive and precise but the
answer was something like "naah fly simulator is cooler, we can fly
like birds!", really that was an actual answer, supposedly for live
recording the camera to keyframes.

Also a lock camera to view option would be great so we can just move
the camera like we move any other viewport

am I the only one that doesn't get this?

peace,
Daniel Salazar
3Developer.com