View Controls help text is outdated — proposal: move it into the settings panel

[chraibi]

The View Controls panel (top-right, from WBP_SettingPanel) permanently shows a camera-navigation cheat-sheet. Two problems:

1. It occupies prime viewport space for text you read once.
2. With the Blender-style navigation now proposed (orbit/pan/zoom + view gizmo, see the upcoming camera PR from our fork), the listed bindings will be wrong.

Proposal: remove the always-on panel and put the text into the settings dialog (e.g. a Controls section next to Performance Settings), or behind the existing ? help button.

Ready-to-paste replacement text once the camera navigation lands:

**Camera Navigation**
Orbit          = Middle-mouse drag  (or Option/Alt + Left-drag)
Pan            = Shift + Middle-mouse drag  (or Shift + Option/Alt + Left-drag)
Zoom           = Mouse scroll (zooms toward the cursor)
View presets   = Click the axis gizmo balls (top-right); drag the gizmo to orbit
Fly            = W / A / S / D  (Q / E down/up), hold Shift for speed boost
Look           = Hold right-mouse button + move mouse

I can't edit the widget from our side of the fence conveniently (binary asset, merge conflicts), so filing this rather than a PR. Happy to review wording.

[chraibi]

[sir306]

the control panel has been revamped in latest branch to solve that problem and will be merging it into main soon once polish is complete, if you can test and use that branch in the meantime would be helpful, unfortunately the sprint for that branch ended up exploding with additional features to meet requested features. the whole top ui panel has been revamped and should be rather appealing now.

I see the gizmo you are thinking of implementing but we need to be clear that unreal engine like many 3d software, it uses their own axis orientation so we would have to decide whether the gizmo reflects the actual orientation of unreal engine or visually display a different orientation and bind the logic correctly. which could confuse contributors when they see z being wired into negative x and so on

[chraibi]

Can you point me to this branch, so I know what is in it?

The gizmo is not meant to be confusing. Did you give it a try and found it weird?
The actual Camera controls are not flexibel and I found it hard to move around the scene. THat was the main motivation behind this PR.

[sir306]

hey the latest and greatest branch is https://github.com/sir306/ProjectMobius/tree/data-import-plugin-and-b-risk-implementation

I made a pr to bring over what i had earlier today in that branch into main. I haven't had a chance to try it yet and understand the concept well (use blender a lot). I won't be able to try it just yet for another week or too but like the concept a lot, you should find all or most of the controls updated with clearer binding descriptions now. I am unsure if i added a draft user manual document to the repo yet or if it is still sitting on my hard drive. But can send you a draft tomorrow if its not on the repo (keep in mind i haven't updated it in over a month and has changed a bit)

[sir306]

hopefully these images will provide some context to the overhaul i have been doing the last couple of weeks - like getting IFC files to work (few bugs to sort but can bring them in and all the good stuff that comes with it)

[chraibi]

Tried to keep the gizmo free of exactly that confusion: it does no relabeling at all — the three balls are the world ±X/±Y/±Z axes as Unreal defines them, projected through the current control rotation each frame. Clicking +Z looks down the actual UE Z axis; nothing is wired to a different axis under the hood, so contributors reading the code see +X ball → camera on the +X side, one switch statement, no mapping table.

The Blender-likeness is only in the interaction (click ball = snap to that side, drag gizmo = orbit, MMB/Alt-LMB orbit around the point under the cursor, turntable with Z up) — not in pretending UE has Blender's axes.

I'll test the data-import-plugin-and-b-risk-implementation branch on macOS this week (we carry a few Apple-Silicon build fixes locally .

PS: The new UI looks much cleaner and fresher. Thanks.