What does this do?

When I was in blender, I accidently pressed Shift+F, what did I do? It was the weirdest thing, It was like a moving camera, but when i pressed escape, It stopped.

I don’t know. I haven’t seen that one before. It only works when you are in the camera view though. I downloaded a hot key list from the tutorial section and it isn’t on there. -The Blender Mystery- Someone else probably knows.
-Brian

Ok Iv’e played around with this now and what I have found is that after you press the shift F you seem to enter a camera fly-thru mode. If you mouse left clik you move forward if you mouse middle click you move backward and it seems that moving the mouse in any direction lets you turn. This is really cool!
-Brian

Whoooooo…funky little feature ! If you keep clicking you accelerate, crtl and alt move down and up…I wonder if there’s a way to roll the camera too ?

that’s the fly mode. like you said, shift-F to start it. mouse buttons affect the speed.

then, press spacebar to place the camera in the current position, or esc to cancel.

enjoy!

d52477001

http://intrr.org/blender/instinctive-blenderkeys.txt

SHIFT-F is flymode and has been documented in the instinctive blender key list for months…

Also, try pressing T->Grabber while in camera view with the camera selected.

BrianT wrote:

It only works when you are in the camera view though

You can select any object, do Ctrl-Zero, and go into fly mode to view the rest of the scene from the position of that object

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