[Bf-committers] Camera view navigation rant

[Damir Prebeg]

I'm talking about this for long time now but I always get this
beautiful answer: We don't need that because we have fly mode. And if
we really want to align camera to view, we have Ctrl+0. If you really
need that (although we don't know why would you need such a thing),
Blender is opensource so make a patch by your self. Buzz off.

Thumbs up Daniel!

On 25 April 2011 05:50, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com
> <zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Alternative view navigation modes would definitely be worth trying out
> and can be scripted without doing anything really complicated.
>
> See: Script Templates -> Operator Modal View3D, this is a very simple
> operator that uses the mouse to move the view offset.
> in execute() you can set rv3d.view_location and rv3d.view_rotation
>
> API Ref: http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_57_release/bpy.types.RegionView3D.html
>
> Reading you're mail I remembered rv3d.view_matrix was readonly, just
> committed support for assignment r36317.
> This makes manipulating the view easier, so you can assign the
> transform without worrying about the 'view_distance'.
>
> Of course once the basics are done this can become more involved,
> casting rays, smoother motion, mouse-look & strafe :-)
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