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Support Basics & Interface keseyrage (keseyrage) July 27, 2016, 7:04pm 1 blenders viewport rotation has been driving me insane lately, i don’t know what it is but it’s way to touchy, especially when zoomed in. Working on small, fine details is impossible because of the fucking rotation. Is there a way to always rotate around my cursor? not 3d cursor, just mouse cursor.thanks. FinalBarrage July 27, 2016, 8:12pm 2 umm… press R?i dont know why you are complaining, when you press R, you will rotate around the center of your selection, and there will be a line from your cursor to that point. if you move the cursor to that point, ofc it will go crazy, just move ur mouse further away.also if you wish to lock it to an axses, press R followed by X, Y or Z. and by typing inn a number afterwards you can set an exact rotation value.i dont see your problem.also just a sidenote, if you are familuar with other 3D programs you might be used to moving the cursor left and right (or up and down) to change the value, well in blender you move the cursor in a circle around the pivit point. FinalBarrage July 27, 2016, 8:14pm 3 also, if you hold down Shift while rotating you will get much finer controll. but slower. and hold CTRL for snapping. JensSchmidt (Jens Schmidt) August 26, 2019, 10:53am 4 I have the same “problem”, I would love to be able to rotate the view around the (projected) mouse cursor. Does anyone know how to do that? Ztreem August 27, 2019, 12:28am 5 Go to preferences and turn off orbit around selection then you can use alt+ mmb to target what to orbit around. felsenstern (felsenstern) September 10, 2020, 11:16am 6 I think what people are asking for is a navigation similar to the navigation in Cinema 4D. C4D always rotates around the first intersection that is found beneath the mouse pointer. That’s very fast and intuitive. Ztreem September 10, 2020, 1:40pm 7 You can do this in Blender too. Check this setting and it will orbit around the intersection beneath the mouse pointer. 202009106032

Here I only navigate with the mmb and it orbits around what’s under the mouse. 202009106036

7 Likes felsenstern (felsenstern) September 10, 2020, 1:57pm 8 That’s very cool. Thanks for the info. There isn’t also something similar like the flight navigation in UE4 and Unity where you hold down the right mouse button and use wasd to fly through a larger map? Ztreem September 10, 2020, 2:02pm 9 yes, there is.

If you use it often you can assign a shortcut key or add it to the quick menu, by right clicking on it in the menu.

blender_20200910_6037493×645 56.7 KB Lumpengnom (Lumpengnom) September 10, 2020, 2:11pm 10

You can do this in Blender too. Check this setting and it will orbit around the intersection beneath the mouse pointer.

Ah, that’s what depth is for. If you have “orbit around selection” and depth ticked then “orbit around selection” takes precedence. Do you know if you can assign an override key so that even if something is selected it will still rotate around the point detected by “depth”? Ztreem September 10, 2020, 2:45pm 11 Look here1 Like gogogolden (gogogolden) November 4, 2020, 7:05am 12 OMG I was almost givin up about it…finally I solved it. I just created account to reply. THANKS A LOT1 Like tomjk (Thomas) November 4, 2020, 10:24am 13 I was trying to solve the issue where working on details over a large object/scene required repeat fumbling with the camera to make it centre on the part I’m working on. I would either rotate and pan, ctrl+shift+mmb drag to dolly, or set the 3d cursor down and center view to cursor (which I’ve mapped to Alt-Home as in pre-2.8 times).The first two approaches are tedious and fiddly and the 3d cursor method is also tedious and sacrifices any position you may have been using the cursor to hold on to.I was looking to move the 3d cursor method into a script (including storing and restoring its position) and stumbled on the view_center_pick operator, which does exactly what I wanted.Basically, ba_viewcenterpickkeymap

As you can see I picked backslash as the shortcut (easily accessed, no combination, relatively unused).Gives you:note: I’ve tried using settings like auto depth previously but I just couldn’t get on with them. I like the view to rotate about its centre.1 Like Ztreem November 4, 2020, 11:56am 14 Nice! Thanks for sharing. I also like when it rotates around the center, feels more natural in some way.Edit: I found out that the default keymap has it as Alt+MMB and it works perfectly fine for me. stpiton (stpiton) November 21, 2021, 3:28pm 15 Thank you, body!1 Like