[Bf-committers] Camera view navigation rant

[Damir Prebeg]

Actually, IMHO Blender has the best 3D view navigation on the market
and I simply love it. I realize that and I cry every time when I have
to manipulate some other 3D App views.
I don't mind to have a set of widgets that would help, but current
shortcut key based navigation is priceless.
Only thing that I would like to have is ability to manipulate with cam
(or object) view in the same way as I manipulate with every other
view.

On 27 April 2011 08:01, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com
<zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Ive been thinking in something like that, I think the navigation
> is overall too hard and hotkey oriented, lots of local rotations and
> grabs without the widgets there to help. I wonder if we could design a
> set of in camera view widgets?
>
> Daniel Salazar
> 3Developer.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Damir Prebeg <blend.factory at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How bout a pin icon in one corner of camera view so when activated,
>> cam view (or any object view) would act as regular view?
>> And ALT could be a shortcut key that would temporary glue cam to the
>> view (Alt+MMB would rotate cam, CTRL+ALT+MMB would move camera forward
>> or backward and SHIFT+ALT+MMB would pan camera?)
>>
>> On 27 April 2011 07:36, Mats Holmberg <mats.holmberg at 2me.fi> wrote:
>>> And if this would work for the camera, then it should also work for anything else (lamps mainly). The script didn't work for me on osx - the view is not locked to the camera view and trackballing around loses the camera lock alltogether =)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -mats
>>>
>>> On 27.4.2011, at 1.39, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> @dfelinto(pto): nope, it would need to *stay* in camera view when panning
>>>> and dollying around :)
>>>>
>>>> Daniel Salazar
>>>> 3Developer.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Below you can find some code for (...) Lock camera to view.
>>>>> Isn't this what Ctrl+Alt+Numpad0 do? (align camera to view -- which
>>>>> even takes care of non-perspective views)
>>>>>
>>>>> On my understanding what people are ranting is for the lack of options
>>>>> to move while "inside" the camera mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dalai
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/4/26 bartius crouch <bartius.crouch at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> Also a lock camera to view option would be great so we can just move
>>>>>>> the camera like we move any other viewport
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like Campbell said, that isn't very hard to do in python. Below you can find
>>>>>> some code for it.
>>>>>> Copy the text below into the text-editor, Run Script (alt+P), go to 3d-view,
>>>>>> search (spacebar) for Lock camera to view.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> import bpy
>>>>>> import mathutils
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> class ModalOperator(bpy.types.Operator):
>>>>>>    '''Move camera along with the viewport'''
>>>>>>    bl_idname = "view3d.lock_camera"
>>>>>>    bl_label = "Lock camera to view"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    @classmethod
>>>>>>    def poll(cls, context):
>>>>>>        camera = context.scene.camera
>>>>>>        if not camera:
>>>>>>            return(False)
>>>>>>        return(camera.name in context.scene.objects)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    def modal(self, context, event):
>>>>>>        camera = context.scene.camera
>>>>>>        rv3d = context.space_data.region_3d
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        # rotation + location
>>>>>>        camera.matrix_world = rv3d.view_matrix.copy().inverted()
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        # override location to take view_distance into account
>>>>>>        rotation = rv3d.view_matrix.copy().to_3x3().inverted()
>>>>>>        z_normal = mathutils.Vector([0.0, 0.0, 1.0]) * rotation
>>>>>>        camera.location = rv3d.view_location + (rv3d.view_distance *
>>>>>> z_normal)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        # handle events
>>>>>>        if event.type in ['LEFTMOUSE', 'NUMPAD_ENTER', 'RET']:
>>>>>>            context.area.header_text_set()
>>>>>>            return {'FINISHED'}
>>>>>>        elif event.type == 'ESC':
>>>>>>            camera.matrix_world = self.camera_matrix
>>>>>>            context.area.header_text_set()
>>>>>>            return {'CANCELLED'}
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        return {'PASS_THROUGH'}
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    def invoke(self, context, event):
>>>>>>        context.window_manager.modal_handler_add(self)
>>>>>>        self.camera_matrix = context.scene.camera.matrix_world.copy()
>>>>>>        context.space_data.region_3d.view_perspective = 'PERSP'
>>>>>>        context.area.header_text_set("ESC to cancel, ENTER or LMB to
>>>>>> confirm")
>>>>>>        return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> def register():
>>>>>>    bpy.utils.register_class(ModalOperator)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> def unregister():
>>>>>>    bpy.utils.unregister_class(ModalOperator)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>>>>>>    register()
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