[Bf-funboard] Suggestion for Orthographic Camera Views Keybinding for tablets/laptops/or people who don't want to drop the mouse

[Sean Olson]

Yep, as I mentioned in the email above, this plays nice with the pressing
alt after starting rotation that snaps to nearest orthographic.  Problem
with that alone is that it is slow if you are far away from the view you
want to snap to ( you are near bottom and want top view) or you are working
on a model without clear directions so that you get mentally lost at which
way you are looking at the model.  Also, when using trackball, sometimes
the model will get in a strange rotation on screen and its often just
easiest to flip to front, top, side and reset mentally.

-Sean
 On Apr 10, 2012 1:01 PM, "Alberto Torres" <kungfoobar at gmail.com> wrote:

> We already have snap to views (top/right/front etc but also 45°) when
> rotating with mmb with alt pressed. However it doesn't use the
> "autoperspective" I always enable in preferences. Doing a patch to fix
> that should be very simple but it's always in my TODO.
>
> DiThi
>
>
>
> El día 10 de abril de 2012 18:30, Sean Olson <seanolson at gmail.com>
> escribió:
> > I've been playing with this setup for a bit now and I think I have
> stumbled
> > upon a good solution.  This solution keeps middle mouse tied to
> navigation
> > and also uses the alt key which already snaps to orthographic views if
> > pressed after you start rotation. In practice with the mouse, this setup
> > seems to work great.  I do wish we could configure doubleclick speed
> > though, as it seems a bit touchy.  In theory this should work fine on
> > tablets, but for some reason mine keeps jumping into front view when I
> > don't tell it to, perhaps some event is stealthily being sent to blender
> > via tablet that I am unaware of.  In addition, this keyset could sit next
> > to the use of the number keys without interfering (or it could free the
> num
> > keys for something else) Anyway, give the idea a try and give me some
> > feedback!
> >
> > The keyset would be this:
> >
> > alt+mmb tweak north - top view
> > alt+mmb tweak south - bottom view
> > alt+mmb tweak east - right view
> > alt+mmb tweak west - left view
> > alt+mmb click - front view
> > alt+mmb doubleclick - back view
> >
> > -Sean
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