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Enhancement: make the middle mouse button actually keep the 3d viewport centered like when pressing z

Open fifflesniffle opened this issue 3 months ago • 4 comments

What would this enhancement be for?

Hammer

Describe your enhancement suggestion in more detail

pretty self-explanatory, make the middle mouse button behave like toggling the z key

fifflesniffle avatar Sep 16 '25 22:09 fifflesniffle

Our middle mouse click 3D pan is designed to behave much like how it does in blender. It also allows using the 3D view controls while using software like remote desktop.

Is there a particular reason the current design doesn’t work well for you?

ozxybox avatar Sep 16 '25 22:09 ozxybox

i used the middle mouse button as my main method for several years in hammer++, in strata there's a slider to set sensitivity rather than it matching the mouse the way it does in software like blender or just pressing z in hammer. the view kinda runs away from the mouse if you turn enough

fifflesniffle avatar Sep 17 '25 01:09 fifflesniffle

I’ll have to compare it to other programs then and see. I sort of just added it without like making sure it was 1:1 with blender. I don’t have a clean fix for the mouse escaping when moving too fast currently. Maybe we could add an option for it to behave more like z mode though

ozxybox avatar Sep 17 '25 01:09 ozxybox

I think then there should be an option to choose either a blender-style orbit (with the mouse escaping fixed) or behaving just like pressing the z key

fifflesniffle avatar Sep 17 '25 16:09 fifflesniffle