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Perspective Window Reference
The perspective window defines quite a few different mouse modes, which are selected by right-clicking in the perspective window. The menu modes and mouse modes are described below.
The perspective window has four entries in the viewport layout manager: Perspective, Perspective B, Perspective C, and Perspective D. The status of each of these flavors is maintained separately, so that you can put a perspective window in several different viewport configurations and have it maintain its view, and you can have up to four different versions, each preserving its own different view.
There is a basic mouse handler (‘Navigate’) operating all the time in the perspective window. You can always left-drag a handle of a mesh object to move it, or control-left-drag it to rotate around that handle.
A selected mesh has a resizing rectangle at its base in local coordinates. Drag any edge to resize, while keeping the opposite edge unchanged (both position and scale are adjusted simultaneously to achieve this). Shift-drag to resize while keeping the two dimensions of the base plane unchanged. If you shift-drag starting in the center of an edge, the resize will go towards the center of the opposite edge. If you shift-drag starting towards either end, the resize will move towards the opposite corner (makes more sense when you try it). If you control-shift-drag, all 3 axes change simultaneously, preserving the overall objects shape; use this for typical realistic 3-D models. Finally, control-dragging the resizing base rotates it.
Tip: if you try to click and start dragging on the resizing base at the same time, typically you will miss it. Click then drag.
If you left-click a tracker, you can select it, shift-select to add it to the selected trackers, add it to a ray for a light, or, with the Coordinates panel displayed, ALT-click it to set it as the target of a selected tracker (ALT-shift-click to set target and distance).
While you are dragging as part of a mouse operation, you can right-click to cancel it.
There are two different 3-D navigation modes: Maya mode and traditional SynthEyes mode. You will be asked the first time you enter SynthEyes’s perspective view; after that you can change the setting in the Perspective section of the Preferences.
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