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  • Published 29 Sep 2020

Customizable gizmo sizes (individually)

While they can be customized globally it doesn't seem to be possible to scale the translate gizmo differently than the rotate gizmo. This would be handy, since translation almost never benefits from a big gizmo, but rotate does. Reason for this is the center part of the rotate gizmo being the area where you can rotate freely... In contrast to the translate gizmo which benefits from the fact that the entire viewport is its free translation area. The rotate gizmo has two separated free functionalities, one being rotate around view forward axis, which is the viewport minus the center free rotate circle. The other being the free rotate which is the same but opposite. 😉 THEREFORE for maximum animation fluidity those two areas should be equally easy to touch. Which leads me to the desire to scale the rotate gizmo so it takes up half the screen, and the translate gizmo down to be like 1% of the screen. ... Why do you want to scale the translate gizmo that much down? ... Because when animating swiftly we choose axis by orbiting not by "sniping" colourful arrows or circles attached to gizmos. They are in fact just in the way. 😕

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andreasng
29 Sep 2020

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