Coming from Blender and Cinema 4D I am used to rotate and shift the view using some shortcuts like ALT-LMB (Alt-LeftMouseButton). I am glad these type of shortcuts also work in MoI. But sometimes I also use the icons on the bottom of each screen. However, the rotating and shifting mechanism seems to work differently if I use these screen-icons. While with the shortcuts the imaginary viewing plane seems to be hard-connected to my mouse, the imaginary viewing plane has some "intertia" (it seems to continue its movement even after the mouse stopped) when I use the screen-icons.

Is this behaviour on purpose, is it maybe the difference between having a pen tablet or having a mouse?

Yours sincerely,

Ray Deleu

Hi Ray, it is as you suspected - the zoom/pan/rotate view controls at the bottom of the viewport are particularly set up for tablet use, so that you don't have to move the cursor very far to make adjustments to the view. This is one of the things that makes it possible to use MoI without having to touch a keyboard, which is something that is not normally possible with 3D software.

The key to using those controls is to only move your cursor a very small amount, if you move it a large amount like you would do for the alt+lmb type style, it will be too much.

They behave quite a bit different, you can move your cursor just a small amount and keep it off center, and the view movement will still have a type of "acceleration" to it - it will slow down if you bring the cursor back to the center again.

For a mouse, it is just an alternative to use these different style controls if you wish to.

- Michael