Alt MMB navigation hotkey not working

[jlampel]

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature request, but Blender's Alt MMB that focuses the view on whatever is under the mouse (which I only recently discovered) does not work in RetopoFlow.

Possibly related to #1112 ?

[vxlcoder]

this issue is related to #1112, in that the action system isn't seeing this action yet, because i didn't implement the click handling correctly. in other words, view3d.view_center_pick is already in list of navigation operators, but since that KeyMapItem is using click (Alt+MiddleMouse+Click) rather than press, the action system ignores that event. changing the KMI to press instead works great!

I just pushed a huge revamp of the action system, but i'll need to do more work that's been on my long to-do before I can get this working.

[astradamus]

Any progress on this, or a workaround for similar functionality? I can't impress just how cumbersome it is to use the tool (or any 3d modeling tool) without the ability to freely place the camera pivot. When working on very convex shapes like hands/faces, it's incredibly difficult to move around quickly and is disastrous for my efficiency.

With this issue being 7 months old, I'm guessing that users in general have found some other workaround, and I'd love to know what that is. Otherwise, in every single way this is an amazing product and I'm extremely happy with my purchase :), just this one detail is really jamming me up :P

[jlampel]

At the moment, I center the pivot by selecting something and then focusing on the selection with the period key. It's not quite as convenient and does require drawing geometry in that area if there isn't any already, but it does the trick well enough that I haven't felt it to be a big issue.

[astradamus]

Yep that works great. I guess I discovered alt-mmb early enough in my Blender journey that I never had to find this command. Had to rebind it as it was like ctrl-numpad-period which was a bit weird, but it works well enough! The only awkward thing is that Retopoflow seems to super-zoom in on the target when focusing (far more than happens outside the retopo editor), like putting the camera almost directly on top of it. Strange but not that big a deal.

Thanks for the tip!