 |
To me it doesn't feel backwards, because it was set up thinking of it like a trackball. Imagine that moving your mouse is moving on the surface of a sphere that you want to rotate. Pushing the mouse up makes the close side of the sphere go up and the far side go down. You agree that the vertical mouse axis makes sense in this way. The horizontal mouse axis for yaw (when zoom is not held) works the same way: Moving the mouse right makes the close side of the sphere go right and the far side go left. If you're holding a candle pointing away from you, and you slide the mouse right, the close side (the base) goes right and the far side (the tip) goes left, because that's how you're rotating the sphere. Pretending it's a trackball, you're pushing right on the close side, so the close side goes right and the far side goes left. I think the confusion comes from whether we _are_ the object we're rotating, like in a flight simulator, or whether we're pushing on the object we're rotating, which is what I chose for these controls, because we are really manipulating the object from the outside. When holding zoom to do the roll rotation, it's less clear which one to do, because you can't do this "roll" rotation with simple pushes on a track ball. You'd have to make circular motions (which incidentally is another way of doing this rotation without having to press zoom). To me it just felt intuitive that right is a clockwise roll and left is a counerclockwise roll. But pitch and yaw consistently follow the same "trackball" convention where moving a direction is like pushing that way against a sphere in front of you. |
|
|
Please see note above. I disagree that this is a bug. :) |
 |
It's been 5.5 years since this was filed. Since there was disagreement back then as to whether this was a bug or not, and tons of people have been using it as it was designed w/no complaints, it's time to close this issue. |
- Anonymous
