[Bf-funboard] Unlock "view offset lock" for Lock to Cursor

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 09:18:12 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:59 AM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:
> @ Campbell -
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Bol Bib <bollebib at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ....I feel the lock to cursor could be more useful if you don't prohibit
> the
>> moving of the 3D view.
>
> I like this idea. Is there some harm in allowing the view to pan while
> locked to cursor? (i.e. move the locked-cursor when the view pans) Are
> there users here who use lock-to-cursor to help entirely prevent them from
> panning the view?
>
> I've been considering a related experiment I call "cursor follows view
> center", which snaps/sticks the cursor to the view origin anytime the view
> moves (via pan/snap, maybe even via rotate) -- while still allowing
> free-placement of the cursor without moving the view. The idea is to help
> the cursor automatically return to a predictable place for common
> operations like object-add, while still allowing explicit use of the cursor
> when it's desired.
>
> Campbell Barton wrote:
>> View operations like pan and dolly could be kept working but the view
>> would stay locked to the object so that when you move the object the
>> view would always follow,
> ... snip..
>> The main issue I see is that users may accidentally pan and then want
>> to reset the offset.... and at this point IMHO making this functionality
>>  option gets kludgy
>
> You can already get behavior like this, where the view tracks an object
> center with an offset, by just creating an empty-child of the object and
> locking the view to that empty.
>
> What you can't get today, is the ability to pan the view as an alternate
> way to move something the view is locked to (cursor or object). It doesn't
> seem as important for lock-to-object as you can grab the object and
> translate it. However, you can't grab the cursor and translate it, so
> allowing the view to pan while locked to cursor seems like a nice option.

Heres a patch which lets you pan when locked, home-key resets the
offset so the object is centered.

This works nicer then I expected and code isn't over-complicating
viewport which was my main concern, so think its OK to go into trunk
after 2.68 release, but feedback welcom.

http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=36000&group_id=9&atid=127

-- 
- Campbell


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