Bug regression: overlay arrow box now highlights entirely

super distracting, unnecessary

 

Not related to this but would it be possible to have something like blender?

It would be much easier when using unity on a laptop

 

cool

good laptop layout = instant interest
what does blender do?
the design team does listen

 

Look at this :

Look at the 2:02 time

 

I gotta admit that you scared me for a moment. I mean Blender doing something ergonomical? Then I'd have to bring the chickens to the dentist. Fortunately this did not disappoint and even brought back (cringe induucing) memories of Alias Wavefront and TDI explore. Yep this way to rotate the viewport by click-dragging icons is nearly 3 decades old.

Good thing is, we've moved away from vaccum tubes. A more user friendly way to handle view rotation is three finger gesture, one finger per axis.

 

What is good about blender navigation?

 

You can pan, zoom and orbit by just clicking the gizmos, this is especially helpful for laptop, trackpad users.

You still have your standard functionality you expect but it adds accessibility functionality on top.
Also, their Pie menus are a lifesaver for me, I mean at this point every software I know uses one. This would be really useful for probuilder's workflow, right now I gotta use the prouilder menu more than I think is necessary.

One other thing that would be helpful in my opinion would the shortcut info that many programs show when pressing a combo. Rider, blender all have them, They show multiple options present when pressing a shortcut combo. @gabrielw_unity

 

Can we get some insight into what's coming

 

This type of local interarction is from the 80s, it is known to be bad and was superceded by non local (ie: shortcut + mouse based) interaction for 2 decades

no it's not: you still need to move the cursor to said icon which on trackpad is difficult, this is superceded with multi finger gestures which is non local

agreed, the Maya spacebar menu (called combo box) is so good that no one uses menu bar anymore, also is non local, also allows gesture!

100% yes! at least in menus

overall: anything that is non intrusive and non local and doesn't eat up screen space is a positive for pro work
anything that is transient is a positive for fast work

 

sold! as long as your team's aware that U isn't KPT Bryce

Unity is so complicated to use, I don't see how it can cater to users so green that they don't know industry standard shortcuts.

i map all nav to maya shortcuts, done. maybe i'm not understanding what you say, got an example?

 

Yea one of the reasons I like Unity is the viewport navigation, I was using maya 15 years ago a lot and it just was an easy switch to Unity. I do wish some more things that maya has for decades would come to unity.

For example :

• Pen / Stylus input support for every tool, Pressure sensitive operations.
• Holding a modifier key to constrain movement to one axis
• Setting selected values by just dragging the middle mouse in the viewport.
• Making easy connections between values even with simple expressions
• Easy switching between layouts
• Customisable shelf ( without programming needed )