SHIFT Tumble

[NaughtyNathan]

yeah.. click on the view cube! ;)

[Shady3D]

what a good answer but that's not what i meant

[NaughtyNathan]

ok... in that case then. no. There is no way (afaik) to do this using normal alt-dragging camera tumbling on a regular perspective camera in MEL. but you could fake it with an ortho cameras by unlocking ortho cameras, turning on "stepped" and changing the step rate to 90 degrees... open up your camera tumble tool settings... You can access most or all of this via MEL if you wanted to.

:nathaN

[ewerybody]

what is tumbling?!?1

mean snapping to a specific angle when you are near it? like from front, top, side...?

The view cube btw: its pure evil!!! I got it disabled and every time some fool checks in a scene where he clicked on an ortho-view I have to either show the viewcube again and hit persp-mode or show persp-attributes and uncheck orthographic view! I think its just bad bad style to make the "persp"-cam orthographic! :banghead: If the view cube really would use the actual cams (that are in the scene anyway) it would be kind of ok.
But I'm faster with hotbox-stype-space+LMB+left/right/up/down anyway `:]

[gashworm]

haven't really played with zbrush to understand how the tumbling works but I would imagine this would be posible to achieve with a scripjob set up somehow. Would it not be possible to set up a script job to query the perspective cameras transforms and test for a modifier key after each change.

This is the untested Idea. and could posibly chugg your maya camera a little



global proc perspToOrtho()
{

int $mods = `getModifiers`;

if ($mods & 1)
{
// do something like change from persp camera to ortho camera because shift is pressed. Probably also need to look at the rotation and translation of the camera in relation to the framed object to determine whether its top side or front camera
}

}

scriptJob -attributeChange persp.tx perspToOrtho;
scriptJob -attributeChange persp.ty perspToOrtho;
scriptJob -attributeChange persp.tz perspToOrtho;

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