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Athari

8 Dec, 2014 @ 11:56pm

ALT button controls

Right now, controls are:
Alt + Left mouse button = rotate
Alt + Middle mouse button = move
Alt + Right mouse button = zoom

It's counterintuitive and hard to use. Usually wheel is used for zooming, so Alt + Wheel up / down should result in zooming. Currently wheel is completely ignored. And clicking middle button isn't easy on most mouses because it's a wheel. Alt + Right mouse button should be used for moving instead.

I'm also not convinced rotating avatar is useful at all (and useful enough to make it a function of the primary mouse button), considering rotation is easy to control with head and body movements (with increased sensitivity, if necessary), but whatever.

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Sazzaj [developer] 9 Dec, 2014 @ 7:38am

Hello,

The controls are based on the defaults used in animation and modelling software, we thought that if it worked for the artists, will work for everyone :).

We are planning to make all controls re-bind-able (maybe even save key binding profiles).

Regarding the usefulness of the avatar rotation, the tracker cannot detect such a rotation that you can do with mouse and keyboard. Also, it was implemented in conjunction with the Pose Avatar options, letting the user set a pose of the avatar without the tracker's aid. As an example, I used these features to make an awesome wallpaper.

We are considering your suggestions (it is highly probable we'll add Alt + Wheel for zooming along side the current binding) and thank you for you feedback!