Hi everyone, I have a ‘silly’ issue with 16.5 : zooming close to an object in the viewport is pretty hard , because the zoom step size is huge.
Where can I remedy that ? I didn't find anything in ‘preferences’ or maybe something in houdini.pref file ?

thanks for 16.5 !

Hi, the mouse wheel scroll can be tricky to use for zoom as the increments can sometimes either be too big or too small. Have you tried using Alt+RMB instead?

Rob

Hello
I've notice it too
If you Shift+mouse scroll it goes slower
But it's true that the default behavior have changed

Ben

Yes, it has changed. The old behaviour had a tendency to slow down almost to zero, making it so you'd never get where you want to go. Holding Shift down will give you a more precise zoom. Also resetting the pivot on the object you're looking at will also reset the zoom speed based on the pivot and camera location, giving you a better overall zoom rate.

Maybe it just takes some time to get used to but i also feel the steps seem way too big when close to an object.

Definitely would like a control like in Nuke ‘camera interaction speed’

The zoom speed is based on clipping planes. You can hack the camera speed by manually entering clipping plane distances.

Benjamin Lemoine
Hello
I've notice it too
If you Shift+mouse scroll it goes slower
But it's true that the default behavior have changed

Ben

Hi , I didn't know about shift key , handy.
It is weird though, the behavior I had before no longer happens. zoom now feels like on 16.0 …

gui2one

@jsmack: Ah, so that is why I am getting such jumpy camera navigation in my large scale scene. I had to extend my camera clipping planes so I could see my large environment.

It might be better if SideFX did not resuse the clipping plane for this feature but instead added another parameter to the camera object to offer more precise control in a large scene. The way it is currently implemented means the larger the scene, the more coarse your camera movements.

Enivob
@jsmack: Ah, so that is why I am getting such jumpy camera navigation in my large scale scene. I had to extend my camera clipping planes so I could see my large environment.

It might be better if SideFX did not resuse the clipping plane for this feature but instead added another parameter to the camera object to offer more precise control in a large scene. The way it is currently implemented means the larger the scene, the more coarse your camera movements.

check the latest build, the zoom control was modified to not be so sensitive to the aspect ratio of the scene viewer and clipping planes. I'm finding navigation greatly improved.