Mouselook Navigation addon (+ZBrush mode)

Jaidek · January 10, 2021, 3:28pm

I too disable Mouselook Navigation when in object mode. I am not sure how it was working, or if it was because it was an older version of the add-on, but at one point when I switch to the Sculpting tab the add-on was active, then when I switched back to the Layout tab it deactivated. It was so nice. But now I can’t seem to get that functionality to work anymore.

dairin0d · January 10, 2021, 3:32pm

buikrin, I’ll try to add “auto-trackball” feature in the next release.

dairin0d · January 10, 2021, 3:35pm

Jaidek, it is possible to limit the addon’s keymaps to specific object modes:

(You will also likely need to click the Update Keymaps button and save Blender preferences afterwards)

actimelvanille · January 10, 2021, 7:13pm

hey guys

is it possible use the “press alt - release alt - zoom” method when being with the mouse over an object like in zbrush somehow?
currently i have to hover with the mouse over an empty area to make zoom work.

dairin0d · January 10, 2021, 8:10pm

Hmm… try this preset: ZBrush+AltRelease.preset (8.6 KB)

dairin0d · January 10, 2021, 8:46pm

The new version of the addon (1.4.0) with “auto-trackball” feature is published

To use it, enable the “Auto Trackball” toggle and in the drop-down menu choose the object modes where you want to use trackball.

actimelvanille · January 11, 2021, 9:12am

many thanks, dairin0d but i cannot get this to work.
if my cursor is over a mesh zoom doesn’t work

dairin0d · January 11, 2021, 11:10am

Huh, strange… it works for me. I move mouse over a mesh, then press and release Alt, and after that I can zoom.

actimelvanille · January 11, 2021, 11:15am

weird, what shortcut do you use for sculpting the mesh inward?
because i have it set to alt-lmb like in zbrush … maybe thats why

dairin0d · January 11, 2021, 12:11pm

I don’t really sculpt But, by default, sculpting inward seems to be Ctrl+LMB.
In the “ZBrush+AltRelease.preset” preset I provided, zoom activates when you release Alt key (but only if you’re not in some other modal operator, like sculpting). So if you use Alt+LMB to sculpt inward, you would need to finish the sculpting stroke first, then release Alt.

actimelvanille · January 11, 2021, 1:05pm

not sure i get what you mean

is the following possible:

alt-LMB - sculpt inward
alt-MMB-releaseMMB - zoom anywhere

dairin0d · January 11, 2021, 2:46pm

Ah, so that’s what you meant! I never worked with ZBrush myself, so your request for “press alt - release alt - zoom” was bound to be misunderstood by me
Okay, try this: ZBrush+MMBRelease.preset (8.6 KB)

actimelvanille · January 11, 2021, 4:08pm

i’m so sorry but it still doesn’t work when hovering over a mesh for some reason

this is how i have set it

kkar · January 12, 2021, 9:51pm

Could there be any reason why having this add-on causes Blender death when the scripts are refreshed (F8) ?

Disabling the add-on gets rid of that hard crash. Not saying caused by this add-on but so far I have tracked down to it.

I have v1.2.6


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0x00007FFF099F0000                      lsoda.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFEDA240000                      _sosfilt.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFF09900000                      _spectral.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFED9C80000                      _stats.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
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0x00007FFF097B0000                      statlib.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFF07D90000                      mvn.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFEDA200000                      _peak_finding_utils.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFED9A10000                      _pnpoly.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
0x00007FFEDB4D0000                      _ccomp.cp37-win_amd64.pyd  
 
# Python backtrace
  File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\mouselook_navigation\dairin0d\bpy_inspect.py", line 302 in serialize
  File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\mouselook_navigation\dairin0d\utils_userinput.py", line 271 in serialize
  File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\mouselook_navigation\dairin0d\utils_userinput.py", line 316 in <listcomp>
  File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\mouselook_navigation\dairin0d\utils_userinput.py", line 316 in insert
  File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\mouselook_navigation\__init__.py", line 1237 in update_keymaps
  File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\mouselook_navigation\__init__.py", line 1655 in register
  File "C:\blender\2.91\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 382 in enable
  File "C:\blender\2.91\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 482 in reset_all
  File "C:\blender\2.91\scripts\modules\bpy\utils\__init__.py", line 282 in load_scripts
  File "<string>", line 2 in fn

dairin0d · January 13, 2021, 10:01pm

kkar, thanks. The crash seems to happen when I try to access OperatorProperties of certain keymap items after the script reload, but I’m not sure yet how to fix or work around it. Hopefully I’ll figure out some solution

Nicholas_Hodgson · January 17, 2021, 9:05am

I just downloaded mouseLook 1.40 for 2.91 and for whatever reason the snap to orthographic doesn’t seems to work out of the box as it used to for older versions. It seems to behave as the default blender snap when holding down alt and rotating. Even when changing the subdivisions of the snap nothing changes. Is there something obvious I might be doing wrong ?

Thanks!

dairin0d · January 17, 2021, 4:44pm

Nicholas_Hodgson, thanks for letting me know! This turned out to be a bug, I’ll try to fix it soon. (When the addon is enabled, it tries to detect the current keymap for 3d view rotation, but I forgot to take into account the possibility of multiple keymaps. And in Blender 2.91 the order of 3d view rotation keymaps has changed.)
In the meantime, you can circumvent it either by loading any preset (you probably want the Blender preset), or by manually changing MOUSEROTATE to Middle Mouse (don’t forget to click the Update Keymaps button after that).

dairin0d · January 20, 2021, 5:37pm

kkar, Nicholas_Hodgson,
I fixed the crash on scripts reload and the default keymap detection. The new version is 1.4.1, it should be uploaded by now.

dairin0d · February 11, 2021, 12:32am

I made another update to Mouselook Navigation (the new version is 1.5.1):

The state of the “enabled” toggle (show below) is now stored in .blend files instead of the addon preferences.
The “enabled” and “trackball” toggles now use operators (this allows to assign keymaps/shortcuts via the context menu).
Fixed a dyntopo/raycast/select conflict (this problem caused the DynamicTopology mode to turn off if mesh had face data).
Added an option to disable raycasting for certain object modes. For example, raycasting is slow in sculpt mode for high-detail models, so by disabling raycasting in Sculpt, ZBrush-mode navigation would work only if you drag beyond the border (but you won’t experience slowdowns during the sculpting).

manuelgperez · February 11, 2021, 2:04am

Thanks so much for that last update. I was one of the people requesting for being able to add a hotkey to turn on and off the addon and I really appreciate it.

Thanks so much again