I think this is the most direct answer to your question, but listing other methods too.Īs with dolly this can move the view back and fourth (using the mouse wheel), but you can also look around using the mouse and W A S D keys, its a mode all on its own and has pros and cons which are better explained elsewhere. Works similar to zoom but translates the view center (like panning forward). View Dolly: Ctrl Shift + middle-mouse or Shift+ +/. Here are some ways to navigate in large scenes or scenes with no obvious center. Sometimes I found myself rotating the view 90d, panning, then rotating back - which seemed an unnecessary workaround. or the object is very large? (a terrain mesh for eg). , but what if there are no objects where you want to look at?. SolutionsĮarly on using Blender I was quite annoyed by this limitation, of course there are ways to set a new view-center, common way is to select an object and press numpad. Typically users don't need to worry about this detail, however zooming will only change the distance which is an offset from location (where 0.0 is zoomed in as far as possible = no offset). rotation: value for yaw-pitch-roll (around the location).distance: the zoom level (distance from the location).location: the point of interest that orbit when rotating the view-port (the center of the screen).read on! Explanation (Detailed)īlenders view is constructed by 3 elements. There are some ways to use Blender without this being an annoyance.

However this makes it awkward to explore a scene or model an object from the 'inside', for example.

In practice this is good for modeling an object which you rotate about a lot to see from all sides Blender's 3D navigation uses a central point to orbit around.

Why zoom stock down