REALOldNick opened this issue on Sep 03, 2005 ยท 38 posts
drawbridgep posted Mon, 05 September 2005 at 9:01 AM
OK, my turn. And I'm going back to post one and, for now, ignoring everything that has come since then. I've tried very hard to reproduce the error you mention without luck. I'll be honest and say that I haven't read up on what the zoom buttons are supposed to do. It's easy to assume that they zoom, but I'm very much a push it and see kinda guy. The + and - seem to change the scale and therefore the perspective of the scene. + and - keys relative to the centre of the scene and Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Alt-Space to the pointer position. It can be confusing to presume that photographic terminology in Bryce has a direct relation to photographic terminology in photography. Lens radius and focal length mean slightly different things in Bryce. SO, it's quite possible that zoom in Bryce means something else. Maybe if they had labeled the option scale then there wouldn't be all this confusion. But in anycase, you say that the + and - cause erratic behaviour, which is different, to me, to confusing behaviour. Starting with a default scene, the - changes the scale from 100% to 66.67%, then 44.44% then 29.63, which, although does zoom out, it's more a scale out. Ctrl-Alt-Space does the same. Then + a few times goes back to 100%. Using the Ctrl-Space Mouse, works slightly differently since it scales relative to the cursor position. I'm wondering if the problem you've encountered has something to do with that? Do you get the same issue just using the - and + keys? Maybe if you take screen shots at 100% and then at each step you follow to reproduce the problem, I'll have more luck seeing what it's doing. The trouble is... If it's a bug, then it's probably always been there and a very tiny percentage of people have ever had the problem and so it won't get fixed as a priority. If it's not a bug then it's a question of misunderstanding and nothing to be fixed. You may not want to use a work around, (i.e. storing the view and moving the director position), but it may well be the easiest solution for you.